OYEYEMI HELEN

(P/B) MR FOX
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 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 doesn't exist. He's infatuated with her. But he also made her up. Will Mr Fox meet his muse's challenge, to stop murdering his heroines and explore something of love? What will his wife Da...
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(P/B) BOY, SNOW, BIRD
Boy Novak turns 20 and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower and father of Snow. Snow is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her fathe...
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Η ΑΛΛΗ
" Σταμάτα να ψάχνεις πού ανήκεις, είσαι μισή και μισή. Σταμάτα. Δεν υπάρχει τίποτα. Μόνο εγώ. Εγώ σε τσάκωσα. . ." Η Τζέσαμι είναι ένα κορίτσι πανέξυπνο και ευφυέστατο, προικισμένο με μια καταπληκτική φαντασία. Παιδί Νιγηριανής μητέρας και Άγγλου πατέρα, νιώθει μιαν απέραντη μοναξιά και περνάει τις ώρες της κρυμμένη στο σκοτάδι μιας ντουλάπας, ενώ τα βίαια ξεσπάσματά της απομακρύνουν τα παιδιά γύρω της. Μια μέρα συναντά την Τιτιόλα, μια κοπέλα συνομήλικη, άτρομη, πάντα γελαστή, πάντα έτοιμη για κάθε σκανταλιά. Τα δυο κορίτσια γίνονται φίλε...
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(P/B) JUNIPER'S WHITENING