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A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets, and against the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes, their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory. But ...Show more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housin ...Show more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The finest novel Dunmore has written.' Observer'Superb and poignant.' Guardian'Quietly brilliant ... among the best fiction of our time.' Daily Telegraph It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where ...Show more
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, susp ...Show more
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A deceptively simple masterpiece". (Independent on Sunday). "Will haunt you for months, if not years". (Guardian). "Outstanding ...if you only buy one book, make it this one". (Good Housekeeping). London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political e ...Show more
Girl, Balancing and Other Stories by Helen Dunmore
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Wisdom and wit shine out from Helen Dunmore's last stories' The Times 'It was her emotional concision that made her so exceptional, a quality on ample display in these posthumous short stories ... some absolute gems' Mail on Sunday 'I couldn't recommend these stories more.' Evening Standard__________ ...Show more
Girl, Balancing and other stories by Helen Dunmore
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her trademark imagination and gift for making history human, she explores the fragile ties between passion, love, family, friendship ...Show more
Ingo by Helen Dunmore
14.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Ingo Chronicles Ser.
A spellbinding magical adventure. Master storyteller Helen Dunmore writes the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, and their discovery of INGO, a powerful and exciting world under the sea. You'll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she was a Mer creatu ...Show more
Latecomers (Penguin Decades) by Anita Brookner; Helen Dunmore (Foreword by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
Hartmann was a German, Fibich an orphan of World War II.... A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. Hartmann and Fibich met at school and 40 years later they can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their ...Show more
Stormswept (The Ingo Chronicles #5) by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Young Adult
An atmospheric and beautifully written adventure, from the award-winning author of INGO Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall -- an island that in the long distant past was devastated by a tidal wave, its halls and people lost. Only some of those ...Show more
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, postsiege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry of State Security. So when An ...Show more
The Crossing of Ingo (#4 The Ingo Chronicles) by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Young Adult | Series: The Ingo Chronicles
Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles. Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo -- a long and dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. No huma ...Show more