Biography (from the publishers): Helen
Dunmore was inspired to write the Ingo series by life on the Cornish coast. She
spends much of her time writing in her house in Cornwall and so it seemed
natural that she should set her stories there. Helen says "It is an area
where there is more sea than land and where seals, dolphins, basking sharks,
storms, sunfish, gulls and mackerel are as much
part of the
children's lives as cars and houses. It is a beautiful place and one which I
love."
Helen
Dunmore is
a prolific writer of both adult and children's fiction. Her first
children's book,
Going to
Egypt,
was
published in 1992. Her first adult novel,
Zennor in
Darkness,
followed
in 1993 and won the McKitterick Prize. She went onto write novels including, A Spell of
Winter, winner of the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction and
The Siege,
which was
short listed for both the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Whitbread Prize for
Fiction. Helen has also written numerous award winning poetry collections.
Ingo,
the first spellbinding book in
the Ingo series, was published in September 2005. The Tide
Knot followed in May 2006 and won a Silver Award at the Nestle
Children's Book Prize 2006, followed by The Deep in
2007. She is also the author of the
following novels:
Burning
Bright, Talking to
the Dead, Your Blue-eyed
Boy, With Your
Crooked Heart, Mourning
Ruby, House of
Orphans and The Seal
Cove. Helen Dunmore has also had a number of short story collections
published: Love of
Fat Men, Ice Cream
and Rose,
1944. She is also the author of
the following poetry collections: Apple Fall,
The
Sea Skater, The Raw
Garden, Short
Days, Long Nights, Recovering
a Body, Secrets,
Bestiary,
Out
of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001, and Glad of
These Times.
Visit Helen Dunmore’s homepage
With
Shackleton – read this short story by Helen Dunmore
Meet the Author –
watch Helen Dunmore talk about House of Orphans in this video
‘The
Siege is a novel for now’ – Helen Dunmore talks about The Siege to The
Guardian
bookgroup.info:
interview: Helen Dunmore – she talks about House of Orphans
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