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Helen Dunmore is the author of The Seal Cove (2004), The Lilac Tree (2004), Zillah and Me (2003), Le danseur de Manhattan (2003), Project Nemises and Other Mysteries (2002).

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The Seal Cove

release date: Jan 01, 2004
The Seal Cove
Katie and Zillah are in their last year at the local primary school, and looking forward to moving on. But then they discover that the school is threatened with closure, and they could be the last children ever to go there. Their class is determined - they have brothers and sisters in the school, their parents went there, the school is part of their community - they won''t let it close, whatever it takes.

The Lilac Tree

release date: Jan 01, 2004
The Lilac Tree
After the tragic death of her father, Katie and her mum go to live in the depths of Cornwall, as far away from their London life as possible. The countryside is beautiful, but coping with a cottage with no heating, an outside loo and a lot of spiders is more than Katie bargained for. Then she meets Zillah, from the farm up.

Zillah and Me

release date: Jan 01, 2003

Le danseur de Manhattan

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Le danseur de Manhattan
Livre-culte des années quatre-vingt enfin réédité dans sa version intégrale, chef-d''œuvre littéraire et document de premier plan sur la culture gay d''avant le sida, Le Danseur de Manhattan dépeint un âge d''or révolu, celui d''une fête permanente, sans tabous ni contraintes. Depuis qu''il a découvert son homosexualité, Malone, jeune homme de bonne famille d''une extraordinaire beauté, erre dans New York à la recherche de l''amour absolu. Guidé dans les méandres du milieu underground par Sutherland, une folle flamboyante, Malone s''enivre de plaisirs neufs, goûtant frénétiquement aux drogues, au sexe et à la danse. Des boîtes de nuit de Manhattan aux orgies extravagantes de Fire Island commence alors une lente déchéance dont l''issue ne peut être que la rédemption ou la mort... À la fois lyrique et poignant, ce roman au réalisme cru dit toute la souffrance d''un homme en quête de pureté dans un monde d''apparences où les rires tonitruants étouffent les larmes de désespoir.

Project Nemises and Other Mysteries

release date: Sep 27, 2002
Project Nemises and Other Mysteries
This literacy programme for juniors offers fiction, poetry and non-fiction reading and writing materials for shared, guided and group reading and writing, and teaching materials. "Comets" should capture the imagination of more able pupils, and software integrates ICT with literacy teaching.

Malgré la douleur [édition en gros caractères]

release date: Feb 01, 2002
Malgré la douleur [édition en gros caractères]
Louise, à quarante ans, est alcoolique et piégée dans un corps qu''elle ne reconnaît plus. Divorcée de Paul qui vient de se remarier et de lui confisquer la garde d''Anna, leur fillette de dix ans, elle se distrait de son présent solitaire et oisif en ressassant le passé. Il y avait alors l''amour de Paul, séduisant autodidacte qui a fait fortune dans l''immobilier, et la tendresse complice de son jeune beau-frère, Johnnie, un garçon intelligent mais autodestructeur, étouffé par l''affection exclusive et excessivement protectrice de son aîné. Après la naissance d''Anna - fruit d''un moment d''égarement avec Johnnie - était venu le temps des mensonges, des non-dits, de la souffrance... Et Louise, minée par la culpabilité, tourmentée par des sentiments interdits qu''elle avait cru tuer en les ignorant, avait peu à peu abdiqué. Envoûtante, sensuelle, enrichie de descriptions extraordinairement évocatrices des couleurs, des lumières ou de la nourriture, l''écriture de Helen Dunmore excelle à restituer l''intensité de la vie jusque dans ses plus infimes perceptions.

The Siege

release date: Jan 01, 2002
The Siege
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore''s masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi''s 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.

Der Duft des Schnees

release date: Jan 01, 2002

Zilla i ja

release date: Jan 01, 2002

A Spell of Winter

release date: Jan 01, 2001
A Spell of Winter
Abandoned by their parents, Catherine and her brother, Rob, are left to the care of their mysterious grandfather, living in an enclosed and stifling world, where their only solace is their relationship with each other.

With Your Crooked Heart

release date: Jan 01, 2001
With Your Crooked Heart
Bestselling British author Helen Dunmore--novelist, poet, and first-ever winner of the Orange Prize for the year''s best fiction by a woman--delivers a "haunting . . . twisting, sensually written tale" ("The New York Times Book Review") of betrayal and fierce love. It is the story of Louise, a tough and introspective Londoner, trapped in a subtle battle between two brothers.

Malgré la douleur

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Malgré la douleur
Autour d''un bouleversant portrait de femme, " Malgré la douleur " trace la carte secrète de ces forces souterraines qui nous gouvernent, nous menacent, mais qu''il faut parfois laisser nous détruire pour mieux nous reconstruire. Louise, à quarante ans, est alcoolique et piégée dans un corps qu''elle ne reconnaît plus. Divorcée de Paul qui vient de se remarier et de lui confisquer la garde d''Anna, leur fillette de dix ans, elle se distrait de son présent solitaire et oisif en ressassant le passé. Il y avait alors l''amour de Paul, séduisant autodidacte qui a fait fortune dans l''immobilier, et la tendresse complice de son jeune beau-frère, Johnnie, un garçon intelligent mais autodestructeur, étouffé par l''affection exclusive et excessivement protectrice de son aîné. Après la naissance d''Anna - fruit d''un moment d''égarement avec Johnnie - était venu le temps des mensonges, des non-dits, de la souffrance... Et Louise, minée par la culpabilité, tourmentée par des sentiments interdits qu''elle avait cru tuer en les ignorant, avait peu à peu abdiqué. Un matin, Johnnie sonne à sa porte. De sérieux ennuis l''obligent à quitter le pays. Louise, qui n''a plus rien à perdre, se découvre enfin prête à subir l''épreuve de son intime vérité et décide de l''accompagner dans sa fuite... Envoûtante, sensuelle, enrichie de descriptions extraordinairement évocatrices des couleurs, des lumières ou de la nourriture, l''écriture de Helen Dunmore excelle à restituer l''intensité de la vie jusque dans ses plus infimes perceptions.

The Ugly Duckling

release date: Jan 01, 2001
The Ugly Duckling
When the ugly duckling hatches out of his egg, his brothers and sisters think he''s monstrous - his head is too big, his neck is too long and his feet are too large.Soon the ugly duckling is hounded out of the farmyard, unloved and unwanted, and forced to fend for himself....

Brother Brother, Sister Sister

release date: Apr 01, 2000
Brother Brother, Sister Sister
Tanya has trouble adjusting when her parents have quadruplets and turns to her diary for consolation.

“Der” Duft des Schnees

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Your Blue-eyed Boy

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Your Blue-eyed Boy
This is a story of Simone, a judge with a husband on the brink of bankruptcy and breakdown. Simone struggles to shield her children from the chaos, then one day she receives a letter from someone she has tried to forget but who hasn''t forgotten her

Allie's Rabbit

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Din blåøjede dreng

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress

release date: Apr 30, 1998
Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress
Cambridge Reading is a major reading scheme which provides stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years.

Talking to the Dead

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Talking to the Dead
When one sister gives birth during the hottest summer in a century, the two sisters are drawn into "a drama of suspicion and betrayal" because the baby is so much like their own baby brother who died suddenly, twenty-five years before.--Jacket.

Allie's Apples

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Helen Dunmore, Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Helen Dunmore, Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney
Another volume in a series highlighting contemporary British poetry. It features the work of three poets and they themselves have made the selections.

Amina's Blanket

release date: Jan 01, 1996
Amina's Blanket
After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie''s class

Un hiver enchanté

release date: Jan 01, 1996
Un hiver enchanté
La saison de Rob, c''était l''été. août. L''ombre aussi noire que les noix mouillées et les oiseaux muets dans la chaleur.( Celle de sa sœur Cathy, c''est l''hiver,) J''aurais voulu qu''à notre réveil, nous fussions dans un royaume de glace où notre haleine se transformerait en glaçons au seuil de nos lèvres(...(, que la neige durât toujours, aussi je me tournais, enfouissant ma tête sous l''oreillers pour ne pas entendre le ruissellement moqueur du dégel. Frère et sœur, tus deux sont liés face aux autres, par le silence autour de l''abandon de leur mère et de la maladie de leur père. Pour en parler, il fallait attendre d''être au lit, " alors nos voix se rencontraient, se mêlaient dans le noir, disant tout ce qu''elles voulaient. " Voix et corps mêlés, leur fusion les isole, leur passion les dissout jusqu''à ne plus pouvoir être deux personnes distinctes. Le pouvoir de suggestion de ce roman autour d''un amour illicite plonge le lecteur dans une ambiance envoûtante dont il ne sort pas indemne.

Recovering a Body

release date: Jan 01, 1994
Recovering a Body
One morning a woman wakes up and finds her body has disappeared. She tries revenge on her lovers, solitary celibacy, marriage and magic as she struggles to get it back. Another woman watches a clump of cells that will be her next baby swim towards her like a space-ship on an ultrasound scan. A third strips naked to bathe in the cold waters of Balnacarry. These powerful poems express the loneliness, comedy and pleasures of life in the body. They explore sexuality and the huge changes of pregnancy and age=ing. They ask what it is really like to think, feel and write ''with two hearts beating inside me''. Women have often been told they must choose between children and artistic creativity. Helen Dunmore challenges the falsity of that choice, as her fifth collection of poems appears at the same time as her new baby.

In the Money

release date: Jan 01, 1993

Going to Egypt

release date: Jan 01, 1992
Going to Egypt
Despite her romantic dreams of travelling in exotic countries, Colette finds herself on holiday in a small coastal town with little to get excited about. But she soon finds that it''s not where you go, it''s the people you meet that really matters.

The Raw Garden

release date: Jan 01, 1988
The Raw Garden
Most of the country is unnatural. Even apparently wild places such as moors and commons were created by a complex chain of decisions: to fell trees, to graze animals, to drain land. Helen Dunmore''s The Raw Garden relates these changes wrought in the landscape through centuries of human intervention to the fascinating and sometimes terrifying state of change made possible by recent advances in genetic engineering. This book of closely linked poems celebrates a familiar world of landscape and human relationships, but at the same time it leads us to explore and question our own "sense of the natural".

The Apple Fall

The Apple Fall
The Apple Fall is a remarkably assured first book of poems. It is a celebration of the lives of all kinds of women, from figures such as Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald to the anonymous peace campaigners of Greenham Common. Helen Dunmore''s poems are concerned with that web of family which constricts or supports us: about becoming a mother and living closely with children; about the many facets of solitude. Helen Dunmore has a strong command of rhythm, and writes with fluency and sensitivity to achieve both precision and sensuousness. Her poems are fresh and direct, combining authority with lightness of touch - rare qualities in contemporary poetry. The Apple Fall is a book of poems with the widest appeal.
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