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

A Granta Best Young British Novelist 2013'A truly exceptional work of fiction, by a writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary' Independent'Transcendent' New York Times Book ReviewHere. Take this key. It might open a house,...

The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, who was named in 2013 as one of Granta's best of young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an unbreakable bond . ....

Gingerbread von Oyeyemi, Helen

'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...