Helen Dunmore - Orange Prize winner - author of The Siege, House of Orphans, Ingo and Out Of The Blue

My short story, SPOTTED DICK, has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Competition.

The Greatcoat is now available in paperback, and has been chosen for Richard and Judy's Autumn Bookclub. The Greatcoat is a ghost story set during and after the Second World War, about the power of the past to imprint itself on the present, and possess it.

'Dunmore conveys a shivery menace and concealed tragedy; this is the most elegant literary flesh-creeper since Susan Hill's The Woman in Black.' The Times

Stormswept, the fifth in the series Chronicles of Ingo, is out in paperback. Set on an island off the Cornish coast, it tells the story of twin sisters Jenna and Morveren, and their encounter with the Mer boy Malin. But when the worlds of Air and Ingo meet, there is always conflict ... and danger ...

Download Protection, a new short story published online by Penguin.

My short story, SPOTTED DICK, has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Competition.

Welcome. I hope that this website will give you the information you need about my books, other work that I’ve been doing and forthcoming events, as well as links to relevant websites. There is information about all my published work, with outlines, extracts and reviews, as well as news about forthcoming publications.

Some readers may know my novels but not my poetry, or be familiar with my writing for children but not my work for adults. For this reason I’ve included extracts from my novels and books for children, as well as a some complete short stories, a selection of poems and a selection of essays. I hope that these will give some sense of my writing as a whole.

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