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Ingo Tetralogy
The Ingo tetralogy is a series of four children's novels, set in Cornwall, by British author Helen Dunmore. The four books are, in chronological order, '' Ingo'', ''The Tide Knot'', '' The Deep'' and ''The Crossing of Ingo''. The first book was nominated for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize. 2 September 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009. There are 4 books in this series, written by Helen Dunmore. Ingo Sapphire is faced with her father's (Matthew Trewhella who is coincidently related to the Matthew Trewhella associated with the Zennor mermaid) sudden disappearance when he left Sapphire's mother after an argument. All they found was his boat, the Peggy Gordan, capsized with nothing in it. Many people had different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. Her best known works include the novels ''Zennor in Darkness'', '' A Spell of Winter'' and ''The Siege'', and her last book of poetry ''Inside the Wave''. She won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction, the National Poetry Competition, and posthumously the Costa Book Award. Biography Dunmore was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1952, the second of four children of Betty (''née'' Smith) and Maurice Dunmore. She attended Sutton High School, London and Nottingham Girls' High School, then direct grant grammar schools. She studied English at the University of York, and lived in Finland for two years (1973–75) and worked as a teacher. She lived after that in Bristol. Dunmore was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). Some of Dunmore's children's books are included in reading schemes for use in schools. In March 2017, she published her last n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingo (novel)
''Ingo'' is a Children's literature, children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2005 and the first of the Helen Dunmore, Ingo pentalogy (followed by ''The Tide Knot'', ''The Deep (Dunmore novel), The Deep'', ''The Crossing of Ingo'' and ''Chronicles of Ingo: Stormswept'' (2012). Plot summary Sapphire (Sapphy) is inside St. Senara's church, Cornwall, with her father Mathew Trewhella. He shows her the carved Mermaid of Zennor, Zennor Mermaid chair and tells her the tale of the Mermaid of Zennor, in which a Mer falls in love with a human man who swims away with her, becoming Mer. He reveals the man's name is Mathew Trewhella, but claims his identical name is a coincidence. Later, on Midsummer Night, Mathew sings Peggy Gordon while gazing at the sea. The song references 'Ingo', a realm 'far across the briny sea'. For the next three nights, Mathew goes out sailing, returning with wet clothes. On the third night, he does not return. Many locals presume he has drown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tide Knot
''The Tide Knot'' is a children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2006 and the second of the Ingo tetralogy (preceded by '' Ingo'' and followed by '' The Deep'' and ''The Crossing of Ingo''). It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Nestlé S.A. (; ; ) is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other me ... Silver Award and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Plot Sapphire, Conor, and their mother have moved to St Pirans with Roger, leaving behind their cottage by the sea, where their dad disappeared two years ago. Conor has adapted to this new life, but Sapphire cannot. She is withdrawn and restless, and her only relief is the underwater world of Ingo. She goes there more frequently, even without Conor, who has given up going, and prefers his life in the air. A new couple are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deep (Dunmore Novel)
''The Deep'' is a children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2007 and the third of the Ingo tetralogy (following '' Ingo'' and ''The Tide Knot'' and to be followed by ''The Crossing of Ingo''). Plot summary A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood—half Mer, half human—can overcome the Kraken that stirs in The Deep. Sapphire must return to the Deep, with the help of her friend the whale Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ..., and face this terrifying creature - and her brother Conor and Mer friend Faro will not let her go without them. Those with pure Mer blood cannot go to the Deep. Sapphire has moved back into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crossing Of Ingo
''The Crossing of Ingo'' is a children's fantasy novel by Helen Dunmore, first published in 2008. It is the fourth and final volume in the ''Ingo'' tetralogy. It was longlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize. Plot summary Sapphire and Conor have been called to make the dangerous Crossing of Ingo, a journey to the bottom of the world, and it has been prophesied that if they complete it then Ingo and Air will start to heal. They have their Mer friends, Faro and Elvira, to help them, but their old enemy, Ervys, is determined to make sure they don't succeed. They have many adventures going around the world and Sapphire finds new abilities. Reception The book has received positive reception from the ''Liverpool Echo'' and ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booktrust Teenage Prize
The Booktrust Teenage Prize was an annual award given to young adult literature published in the UK. The prize was administered by Book Trust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading. The Booktrust Teenage Prize was last awarded in 2010 and is no longer running. List of Prize Winners *2010 '' Unhooking The Moon'' by Gregory Hughes *2009 ''The Graveyard Book'' by Neil Gaiman *2008 ''The Knife of Never Letting Go'' by Patrick Ness *2007 ''My Swordhand Is Singing'' by Marcus Sedgwick *2006 '' Henry Tumour'' by Anthony McGowan *2005 ''Century'' by Sarah Singleton *2004 ''Looking for JJ'' by Anne Cassidy *2003 ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' by Mark Haddon Shortlists *2010 **'' The Enemy'' by Charlie Higson **''Halo'' by Zizou Corder **'' Nobody's Girl'' by Sarra Manning **'' Out of Shadows'' by Jason Wallace **''Revolver'' by Marcus Sedgwick *2009 **'' Auslander'' by Paul Dowswell **''The Graveyard Book'' by Neil Gaiman **'' Ostrich Boys'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Pirans
ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy and theology by St. Thomas Aquinas * St or St., abbreviation of "State", especially in the name of a college or university Businesses and organizations Transportation * Germania (airline) (IATA airline designator ST) * Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, abbreviated as State Transport * Sound Transit, Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, Washington state, US * Springfield Terminal Railway (Vermont) (railroad reporting mark ST) * Suffolk County Transit, or Suffolk Transit, the bus system serving Suffolk County, New York Other businesses and organizations * Statstjänstemannaförbundet, or Swedish Union of Civil Servants, a trade union * The Secret Team, an alleged covert alliance between the CIA and American indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Helen Dunmore
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
