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Jan 30, 2026 9:24 AM

Author:Helen Dunmore

Protection

Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.

'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'

Florence lives in the country, lapped by miles and miles of darkness. She feels safe there - until a noise wakes her in the middle of the night.

Protection is a short story by bestselling author Helen Dunmore that will cause your skin to prickle and make you ask yourself how far you would go to protect your family.

Reviews

Typically clever and artful, a nervy skin-prickler that grabs your attention immediately and then develops into a subtler character piece

—— Spectator

Guaranteed giggles

—— B

Richard Asplin's romp through Hollywood is comic and thrilling. I whipped one page over so fast it tore

—— Ben Hatch, author of The Lawnmower Celebrity

Big cast, big characters and jokes-a-plenty, it puts Asplin straight up there with Carl Hiaason and Mr Elton

—— Emlyn Rees, co-author of Come Together & Love Lives

Extremely funny

—— Observer

Exhibits extraordinary originality

—— John Bayley , Independent

Saramago can transform banal sentiments into unexpected profundities

—— David McAllister , TLS

Earle seems to have little trouble expanding his range from a three-minute song to a 300-page narrative... And though the novel comes no closer to establishing the facts of Hank Williams's death, it certainly reveals a good deal of truth behind it

—— Alfred Hickling , Guardian

A witty, heartfelt story of hope, forgiveness and redemption

—— Booklist
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