'Oyeyemi reveals a twinkling sense of humour ...A delight'

Independent

It's a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn't seen her in six years. He's unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least because she doe[...]

As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jessamy Harrison just can't shake off the feeling of being alone. When she is taken to Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a girl her own age. It seems that Jess has found someone who will understand her. This is a novel about spiri[...]

The daughter of a British father and a Nigerian mother, Jessamy "Jess" Harrison is growing up feeling that she is caught between two different worlds, until she is sent to visit relatives in Nigeria, where she comes face to face with a mysterious new friend who apparently remains invisible to those [...]

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 ...BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life.[...]

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
One of "Granta"'s Best Young British Novelists
Fairytale romances end with a wedding. The fairytales that don't get more complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels,[...]

The widely acclaimed novel that brilliantly recasts the Snow White fairy tale as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty the opposite of the life she s left behind [...]