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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the gre ...Show more
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. ...Show more
Icarus Girl, The by Helen Oyeyemi
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. 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 and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes. This is a novel about spirits, ...Show more
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. "You're a villain," she tells him. "A serial kill ...Show more
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is effortlessly unique. Get lost in the story like you would an unfamiliar city and let it reward you with moments of philosophical clarity, wheelbarrow r ...Show more
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.' - Ali Smith The hugely anticipated new novel from the beloved author. Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriag ...Show more
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in this strange train an ...Show more
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment -- and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordina ...Show more
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A twenty-first-century gothic thriller steeped in Nigerian folklore, told from the viewpoint of an eight-year-old girl with a touch of genius; a heroine in the vein of Mark Haddon's Christopher.'Stop looking to belong, half-and-half child. Stop. There is nothing, there is only me, and I have caught you. ...Show more
The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Maja Carmen Carrera, the daughter of a black Cuban couple, was only five years old when the family emigrated from the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a woman singing eerily at the farewell party while little Maja and an older girl peered out from beneath a table. Now, almost t ...Show more
The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a woman singing - in a voice both eerie and enthralling - at their farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja herself is a singer, pregnant and haunted by what she ...Show more
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked ...Show more