Helen Dunmore
A celebration of the life and work of acclaimed novelist Helen Dunmore. A wonderful friend and literary inspiration.
I fought off a burglar in my own home – but he inspired my new novel
Stories have the power, which Dickens above all used, to make the haves see the have-nots as people. My burglar was not a beast, but a person.
New Statesman 2016 Xmas Children’s Books Picks
If keeping your spirits up in the past month has been difficult, then the best children’s books may be a present to yourself. I am emerging from the duvet much as Moses came down from the mountain, to say there...
The Hunger Games and the teenage craze for dystopian fiction
Wizards and vampires are out. The market in teen fiction is dominated now by societies in breakdown. And it’s girls who are lapping them up.
What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin
Lappin's account of her life as a mulitple émigré is shot through with sadness and euphoria.