Books by Helen Oyeyemi

Peaces

by Helen Oyeyemi

(209 reviews)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 'Intoxicating.' New York Magazine 'Oyeyemi is a master.' New York Times 'Welcome back to the magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi's singular fiction, in which trapdoors spring open and... See More

The Icarus Girl

by Helen Oyeyemi

(288 reviews)

'This is a beautiful, haunting story of precocious eight-year-old Jessamy... This compelling tale of folklore and cultural differences is sure to top the bestseller lists' Daily Mail 'A moving study of alienation'... See More

Juniper's Whitening: AND Victimese (Modern Plays)

by Helen Oyeyemi

Two plays exploring the pain of living and the difficulty of dying by a sensational new writer Juniper's Whitening "Tell me this - is it true that if you make someone die, and they come out the other side, it doesn't... See More

Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors

by Margaret Atwood

(115 reviews)

'Wonderful... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist ______________________________ A fun and fearless anthology... See More

Parasol Against the Axe

by Helen Oyeyemi

(13 reviews)

'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.' ALI SMITH 'Entirely original.' STYLIST 'Oyeyemi has mastered the art of bold, expansive storytelling.' IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'A writer we should be delirious to have as a... See More

The Opposite House

by Helen Oyeyemi

(48 reviews)

'Rich and witty... it confirms Helen Oyeyemi as a true original' Ali Smith 'Powerful... wonderfully unsettling... Oyeyemi's raw style is great' Time Out 'Beautiful... this is about the difficulties of knowing who you are... See More

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

by Helen Oyeyemi

(745 reviews)

The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to... See More

White is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

(898 reviews)

Haunting in every sense, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi is a spine-tingling tribute to the power of magic, myth and memory. High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother... See More

Mr Fox

by Helen Oyeyemi

(207 reviews)

Mr 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 bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a... See More

Boy, Snow, Bird

by Helen Oyeyemi

(1,778 review)

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

Gingerbread

by Helen Oyeyemi

(812 reviews)

'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam' - Ali Smith, author of How to be Both Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories - equal parts wholesome and uncanny - beloved... See More

The BBC National Short Story Award 2017

by Joanna Trollope

(12 reviews)

There is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often find in the novel, Frank O'Connor wrote, 'an intense awareness of human loneliness.' The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short... See More

The BBC National Short Story Award 2010

by Helen Oyeyemi

(4 reviews)

The BBC National Short story Award is one of the world's largest awards for a single short story. All five shortlisted stories, including the winner, are published here side by side. The Award is designed to honour Britain's... See More

Ploughshares Summer 2015 Guest-Edited by Lauren Groff

by Lydia Davis

(3 reviews)

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More

Was du nicht hast, das brauchst du nicht (German Edition)

by Helen Oyeyemi

(4 reviews)

Wilde, bunte Geschichten für wilde, bunte Zeiten Das neue Buch der international gefeierten Autorin. Ausgezeichnet mit dem PEN Open Book Award. Gewinnerin des Sommerset Maugham Award. Gewinnerin des Hurston/Wright Legacy... See More

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories

by Ali Smith

A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most... See More