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A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
26.00 NZD
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
26.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the sticky summer heat unruly desires stir the blood ...For Catullus, the brilliantly witty and outrageous young poet, and Clodia, his older, married lover, a borrowed villa in Rome is a secret, illicit meeting-place. When they are apart, Catullus burns with desire for 'his girl', while Clodia goes h ...Show more
Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret. Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionat ...Show more
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
26.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
"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
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Girl, Balancing and Other Stories by Helen Dunmore
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
49.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Finland 1901. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Her challenging, independent, enigmatic presence disturbs Thomas as much as it fascinates him. Their relationship will shatter all the certainties o ...Show more
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The orphaned daughter of a revolutionary in turn-of-the-century Finland is sent to keep house for a widowed country doctor. 'This novel
Ingo by Helen Dunmore
16.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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