The Greatcoat is published this month  by Hammer Books. It 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, 28.1.12'

'A powerful evocation of period, and the tricks the mind can play on itself, its unadorned prose builds an effect reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw.' (Prospect, February 2012) 

Stormswept, the fifth in the series Chronicles of Ingo,  published in January 2012.   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, who has been thrown up onto the dunes by a ferocious storm.  But when the worlds of Air and Ingo meet, there is always conflict ... and danger ...

Download Protection, a new short story published by Penguin.