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  • The Illustrated Woman

    The brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Award shortlisted poet

    by Helen Mort ...
    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION*'A raw, tender, potent collection' - JESSICA ANDREWS'Gorgeous poems - profound, exploratory, wild, playful - and completely now' - RUTH PADEL________The brilliant new collection from T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Award shortlisted poet Helen MortLet me kneelbefore the sky and let me be hum... ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • STEPMOTHER

    The new prose-poetry collection exploring one of our society’s most maligned female figures

    by Helen Mort ...
    'Euripides said "better a serpent than a stepmother." For a moment, you like the idea of being a single line, winding around everything you touch. A vine.''Brave, graceful and absolutely vital - Mort shoulders away the old trope of the stepmother and replaces her with a host of humane women' SARAH HALL, author of HelmWhen a new relationship casts poet Helen Mort in the role of stepmother, she ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Ethel

    The biography of countryside pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite

    by Helen Mort ...
    Pioneer, activist, environmentalist, poet. Ethel Haythornthwaite is virtually unknown, even in her home town of Sheffield – the UK's outdoor city – yet her tireless campaigning led to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and the creation of the Peak District National Park, protecting a wild and varied landscape so many have fallen in love with. Founder of a local society to ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Map Could Show Them

    by Helen Mort ...
    * A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016*'When we climb alone*en cordée* feminine,we are magicians of the Alps –we make the routes we followdisappear**'The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves.Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground –. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Never Leave the Dog Behind

    Our love of dogs and mountains

    by Helen Mort ...
    'We live in a world populated by dog lovers, where many of us regard them as members of the family. We are fascinated by them: either anthropomorphising our pets or obsessing about the ways they differ from us. And mountains – theatres of risk, drama and heroism – provide the perfect stage for us to enact our canine fascination in all its pathos and poetry. In short, the hills bring into focus ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Line Above the Sky

    On Mountains and Motherhood

    by Helen Mort ...
    Guardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor's ChoiceWinner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature**'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon McGregor'This book is beautiful' Emma Jane Unsworth**'Climbing gives you the illusion of being ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Division Street

    by Helen Mort ...
    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE AND COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*'A stone is lobbed in '84,hangs like a star over Orgreave.Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land,our town of miracles...'- 'Scab'From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Mort's stunning debut is marked by distance and division. Named for a street in Sheffield, this is a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    A Line Above the Sky

    On Mountains and Motherhood

    by Helen Mort ...
    Narrated by Helen Mort ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death.Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds ... Read more

    $12.28 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    On the Run

    A BBC History of Humanity’s Relationship to Running, From Prehistory to the Present Day

    by Helen Mort ...
    Narrated by Helen Mort ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 5 min

    Award-winning poet, writer and runner Helen Mort looks at stories of running through the ages, asking why humans run and what it tells us about ourselvesFor millions of people worldwide, running is an essential part of life. It is seen as a path to health, longevity and mental wellbeing – but what is at the root of this international obsession? Where did our desire and ability to run come from, ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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    Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories for the End of the World

    Six traditional tales retold by six ground-breaking poets

    by Helen Mort, Joelle Taylor, Will Harris, Malika Booker, Inua Ellams, Kayo Chingonyi ...
    Narrated by Will Harris ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 8 min

    Ink Tales reinvigorates fairy tales and myths from around the world, breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes throughout.Travel across oceans and discover the vengeful wrath of a River God in Kayo Chingonyi's West African tale. Soar too close to the sun with Inua Ellam's timely story of a young refugee girl. Fly to a mysterious castle inhabited by a cursed prince with Helen Mort's retelling ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories for the End of the World

    Six traditional tales retold by six ground-breaking poets

    by Helen Mort, Joelle Taylor, Will Harris, Malika Booker, Inua Ellams, Kayo Chingonyi ...
    Ink Tales reinvigorates fairy tales and myths from around the world, breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes throughout. Illustrated by Inkquisitive (Amandeep Singh) in his vibrant signature Indian inks, each story is accessible and visually inspiring.Travel across oceans and discover the vengeful wrath of a River God in Kayo Chingonyi's West African tale. Soar too close to the sun with Inua ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Book of Sheffield

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Gregory Norminton, Geoff Nicholson, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Johny Pitts, Helen Mort, Desiree Reynolds, Karl Riordan ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves.From its botanical gardens and elegant parks, to the brutalist high-rise estates of Park Hill, and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between the forges of the past and the melting pot of the present.Bringing together new short stories from some of the city’s ... Read more

    $7.49 USD