Poetry
The Apple Fall (1983) Bloodaxe: Newcastle upon Tyne.
The Sea Skater (1986) Bloodaxe: Newcastle upon Tyne. Winner of
the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.
The Raw Garden (1988) Bloodaxe: Newcastle upon Tyne. A Poetry
Book Society Choice.
Short Days, Long Nights: new and selected poems Bloodaxe: Newcastle
upon Tyne.
Secrets: a collection of poems from hidden worlds (1994) Bodley
Head: London Winner of the Signal Poety Award. For children.
Recovering a Body (1994) Bloodaxe: Newcastle upon Tyne.
Bestiary (1997) Bloodaxe: Newcastle upon Tyne.
Helen Dunmore, Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney Penguin Modern Poets,
new series, no 12 (1997) Penguin: London.
Bouncing Boy, and Other Poems with wood
engravings by Ros Cuthbert (1999) Yellow Fox: Winscombe.
Out of the Blue Poems 1975-2001 (2001) Bloodaxe: Newcastle upon
Tyne.
Snollygoster and Other Poems (2001) Scholastic: London. For children.
Adult Fiction
Zennor in Darkness (1993) Viking: London. Winner of the McKitterick
Prize. Large print edition and unabridged audio tape from Chivers.
Burning Bright (1994) Viking: London. Large print edition from
Chivers.
A Spell of Winter (1995) Viking: London. Winner of the Orange
Prize for Fiction. Large print edition from Chivers. Unabridged audio
tape from ISIS.
Talking to the Dead (1996) Viking: London. Unabridged audio tape
from ISIS.
Love of Fat Men (1997) Viking: London. Short stories. Large print
edition and unabridged audio tape from ISIS.
Your Blue-eyed Boy (1998) Viking: London. Large print edition
from ISIS. Unabridged audio tape from Chivers.
With Your Crooked Heart (1999) Viking: London. Unabridged audio
tape from ISIS.
Ice Cream (2000) Viking: London. Short stories. Large print edition
and unabridged audio tape from ISIS.
The Siege (2001) Viking: London. Large print edition and unabridged
audio tape from ISIS.
Mourning Ruby (2003) Viking: London. Large print edition from
ISIS.
Going to Egypt (1992) Julia MacRae: London.
In the Mon£y (1993) Julia MacRae: London.
Fatal Error (1996) Yearling Books: London.
Go Fox illustrated by Colin Meir (1996) Young Corgi: London.
Amina’s Blanket illustrated by Paul Dainton (1996) Heinemann: London.
Allie’s Apples illustrated by Simone Lia (1997) Mammoth: London.
Clyde’s Leopard illustrated by Gerry Ball (1998) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Great-grandma’s Dancing Dress illustrated by Sam Thompson (1998) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Brother, Brother, Sister, Sister (1999) Scholastic: London. Unabridged audio from Chivers.
Allie’s Rabbit illustrated by Simone Lia (1999) Mammoth: London.
Aliens Don’t Eat Bacon Sandwiches (2000) Mammoth: London. Short stories.
Allie Away illustrated by Simone Lia (2000) Mammoth: London. Unabridged audio from Chivers.
Zillah and Me (2000) Scholastic: London. Unabridged audio from Chivers.
The Zillah Rebellion (2001) Scholastic: London.
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Helen Dunmore, illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield (2001) Scholastic: London.
The Silver Bead (2003) Scholastic: London.
The Lilac Tree (2004) (previously released as Zillah and Me) Scholastic: London.
Seal Cove (2004) (previously released as The Zillah Rebellion) Scholastic: London.
Tara’s Tree House illustrated by Karin Littlewood (2004) Egmont: London.
Other Works
Critical introductions to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2003) and Emily Bronte’s Poems of Solitude (2004), both published by Hesperus Press: London.
Other Resources
Bookreporter.com provides detailed reviews and reading group guides for some of Helen Dunmore’s novels.
Guardian Unlimited has the transcript of an
interview by Robert McCrum of Helen Dunmore from June 2001, which coincided with the
publication of The Siege.
The British Council’s Contemporary Writers site includes a detailed section on Helen Dunmore.
The Literary Moose, a personal website devoted to literary fiction, has two ‘chapters’ on the works of Helen Dunmore.
The Penguin Readers Group website includes a transcript of a session in which Helen Dunmore met the Institute of Cancer Research reading group in November 2000 to discuss Talking to the Dead.
Talking to the Dead is also the focus for a transcript of a live online ‘chat’ with Helen Dunmore from November 2001 on the BBC Talk website.
On the Bloodaxe Books website there is an
interview with Helen Dunmore about her poetry
collection Out of the Blue.
