![]() ![]() ![]() Helen Dunmore’s death last year was a great loss to the world of literature. Mary has four grandchildren and her latest picture book, Pirate Baby, is dedicated to the two on the boat. Her three daughters are all grown up: one is a writer, one a theatre producer and the youngest, a designer, is sailing round the world. ![]() Mary lives in a converted barn in West Oxfordshire with her husband and three demanding Burmese cats. She runs the popular History Girls blog, which can be read every day. Mary’s books have been translated into 30 language and won some prizes. She recently started The Greystones Press, a small independent publishing house, with her husband. After graduating in English Literature from Cambridge and spending a couple of years studying Linguistics at UCL, Mary wrote courses for the Open University for five years but then went freelance. Since then she has written 120 books, mainly for children and teenagers but lately also a couple of adult novels under pseudonyms. Mary’s first book, a YA novel, was published in 1975. ![]()
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