Helen Dunmore

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Standard Name: Dunmore, Helen
Birth Name: Helen Dunmore
Married Name: Helen Charnley
HD first established herself as a poet, but became internationally known as a novelist when she won the Orange Prize in 1996. A prolific writer, she also had considerable success with books for children.
Colour photograph of Helen Dunmore opening the refurbished Henleaze Library in Redland, Bristol. in April 2008. She stands looking to her right with a couple of the audience visible behind her. Her pale blonde hair falls straight along her shoulders, and she wears a silver and zebra-print blouse.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Carol Rumens
In her introduction CR calls for quality and professionalism. Those women writers, she says, who have been concerned with the stern art of poetry as an end in itself have tended to be swamped by...
Textual Production Gillian Allnutt
GA 's poetry volume Sojourner was published with recommendations from Helen Dunmore among others.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production U. A. Fanthorpe
She co-operated with others in many further works. She appeared with Tony Lopez in Mortal Heart, 1981. In 1994 she participated in two joint projects: Painter and Poet: Three Poems (limited edition), where her...
Textual Production Gillian Slovo
For her second South African novel (later called a thriller),
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4704 (28 May 1993): 23
The Betrayal, GS chose (as she quite often did) a title used by others as well. In this case...

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Texts

Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Little, Brown, 1996.
Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Penguin, 1997.
Dunmore, Helen. The Apple Fall. Bloodaxe Books, 1983.
Dunmore, Helen. The Betrayal. Fig Tree, 2010.
Dunmore, Helen. The Greatcoat. Hammer Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. The Lie. Cornerstone Hutchinson, 2014.
Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol.
13
, poetrymagazines.org.uk, pp. 11-18.
Dunmore, Helen. The Malarkey. Bloodaxe Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. “The Mironov Legacy”. BBC Radio Four.
Dunmore, Helen. The Raw Garden. Bloodaxe Books, 1988.
Dunmore, Helen. The Sea Skater. Bloodaxe Books, 1986.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Viking, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Quality Paperbacks Direct, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Tide Knot. HarperCollins, 2007.
Dunmore, Helen. With Your Crooked Heart. Viking, 1999.
Dunmore, Helen. Your Blue-Eyed Boy. Viking, 1998.
Dunmore, Helen. Zennor in Darkness. Viking-Penguin, 1993.