Helen Dunmore

A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert review – life under the Third Reich

In a final review written shortly before her death earlier this month, Helen Dunmore acclaims a vivid account of mercy and peril in Nazi-occupied Ukraine

Helen Dunmore

07, Jun, 2017 @11:50 AM

Helen Dunmore's family reveal poem written in the author's last days

Hold out your arms, written shortly before the author died, has been released by her family and is reproduced below

Danuta Kean and Helen Dunmore

06, Jun, 2017 @3:29 PM

Helen Dunmore: facing mortality and what we leave behind

The novelist, recently diagnosed with cancer, considers the question of legacy and how a wander through a graveyard inspired her latest novel Birdcage Walk

Helen Dunmore

04, Mar, 2017 @12:00 PM

Transit by Rachel Cusk review – a woman’s struggle to rebuild her life

Rachel Cusk’s follow-up to Outline is filled with more brilliant, insightful prose

Helen Dunmore

28, Aug, 2016 @7:00 AM

Helen Dunmore: my moment of inspiration on the operating table

The novelist on solitude, her rooftop studio and writing poetry in hospital

Helen Dunmore

20, Aug, 2016 @9:00 AM

The Lauras by Sara Taylor review – an engrossing transgender road trip

Alex doesn’t have a gender – and Ma is OK with that as they cross America in search of the past in this exploration of identity and the bond between mother and child

Helen Dunmore

06, Aug, 2016 @11:00 AM

The Museum of You by Carys Bray review – funny, truthful and bold

The follow-up to A Song for Issy Bradley examines how a bereaved young girl makes sense of her grief

Helen Dunmore

18, Jun, 2016 @8:30 AM

Jane Eyre by Sarah Waters, Margaret Drabble, Jeanette Winterson and others

‘The shock and thrill of discovering this book, aged 13, continues to run in my veins’ … On the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, writers and artists reflect on her greatest creation

Sarah Waters, Tessa Hadley, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Drabble, Esther Freud, Andrew Motion, Maggie O'Farrell, Polly Samson, Helen Dunmore, Blake Morrison, Julie Myerson, Cornelia Parker, John Mullan, Helen Simpson, Polly Teale, Samantha Ellis, Mick Jackson, Joanna Briscoe, Linda Grant, Sarah Perry

16, Apr, 2016 @7:00 AM