'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam' Ali SmithPerdita and her mother Harriet may appear your average schoolgirl and working mother but they are anything but. For one thing, their home is a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat...

Praise for Helen Oyeyemi 'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam' - Ali Smith 'Pure, sensuous enjoyment . . . delicious' The Times 'The greatest joy of reading Oyeyemi will always be style: jagged and capricious at moments,...

Gingerbread von Oyeyemi, Helen

As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling… evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily...

Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father...

High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved wife of Luc. Miranda misses her with particular intensity. Their mazy, capricious house belonged to her...

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours von Oyeyemi, Helen

'Oyeyemi reveals a twinkling sense of humour . . . A delight' IndependentMr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is an beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination, storytelling and love. It's a...

Peaces von Oyeyemi, Helen

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin...

As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling… evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily...

'Magical.' O, the Oprah Magazine'Intoxicating.' New York Magazine'Oyeyemi is a master.' New York TimesFrom the prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread - a brilliant, wise, strange and, above all, beautiful novel. von Oyeyemi, Helen