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Helen Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Girl, The Opposite House, White is for Witching (which won the Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird, Gingerbread and the short story collection What is Not Yours is Not Yours. In 2013, Helen was included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

Books by Helen Oyeyemi

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    Gingerbread

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    What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

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    Boy, Snow, Bird

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    Mr Fox

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    White is for Witching

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