Хелен Данмор

Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, THE SIEGE draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive during this terrible winter. It is a story about war and the wounds it inflicts on people's li...

Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel. In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret. Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with C...

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of the voyage. Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore’s tenth and final poe...

In her prize-winning first novel, Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of D.H. Lawrence and his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War. Spring, 1917, and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor: ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy stories. Into this turmoil come D. H Lawrence and hi...

Ленинград, 1952 год, по стране прокатилась очередная волна сталинских репрессий. Алексей, талантливый врач-ортопед, работает в детской больнице и специализируется на заболеваниях костей. Впереди у него блестящая карьера. Однако когда в больницу поступает десятилетний сын всесильного наркома Волкова с тяжелейшим диагнозом, Алексей оказывается в сложной ситуации. Его коллеги не желают связываться с ...

Закончилась Первая мировая война, и рядовой Дэниел Бранвелл вернулся в родной Корнуолл. Парню повезло - он остался в живых, в то время как его лучший друг Фредерик встретил свою смерть на изрытом снарядами поле. Но Бранвел не чувствует себя счастливым. Пока он воевал, мать умерла, а их дом забрали за долги. До бывшего солдата никому нет дела, кроме больной старухи Мэри Паско, которая делится с ним...

A whisper on the tide Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer, who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo. Perhaps that is why she imagines herself being pulled like a magnet toward the sea. But when her brother, Conor, starts disappea...

Sapphy and her brother Conor have been called to take part in an ancient and dangerous coming-of-age ritual, but Ervys and his followers are determined to stop them.

Sapphire lives in two worlds. On land she walks the rocky shores of the Cornwall coast—but under the sea she can swim like a seal by the side of her Mer friend Faro. Now both of Sapphy's worlds are threatened. In the profound depths of the ocean, where the Mer cannot go, a monster called the Kraken is stirring. He has the power to sweep Ingo away and shake the land from its foundation. Becau...

The inaugural winner of England's prestigious Orange Prize, A Spell of Winter is a compelling turn-of-the-century tale of innocence corrupted by secrecy, and the grace of second chances.Cathy and her brother, Rob, have forged a passionate refuge against the terror of loneliness and family secrets, but their sibling love becomes fraught with danger. As Catherine fights free of her dark present...