Helen Dunmore

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?