Helen Simpson | Granta Magazine

Helen Simpson

Helen Simpson’s is the author of five collections of short stories, the most recent of which is In-Flight Entertainment. Her previous books include Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories and Hey Yeah Right Get a Life.

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Fiction | Issue 115 padlock
Fiction | Issue 115 padlock

Night Thoughts

Helen Simpson

‘Don’t be such a MasculiNazi.’

Fiction | Issue 115 padlock
Fiction | Issue 115 padlock

In-flight Entertainment

Helen Simpson

‘All you needed for the modern world was to know how to work a remote control.’

Fiction | Issue 115 padlock
Fiction | Issue 115 padlock

Scan

Helen Simpson

‘Since last week's diagnosis she had herself fallen out of time.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 115
Essays & Memoir | Issue 115

Constitutional

Helen Simpson

‘The thing about a circular walk is that you end up where you started.’

Fiction | Issue 87
Fiction | Issue 87

Early One Morning

Helen Simpson

‘He's the only person in the world who listens to me and does what I tell him (thought Zoe).’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 87 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 87 padlock

With a Bang

Helen Simpson

‘There had been an unbelievable amount of talk about the weather, not to mention the end of the world and so on’.

Fiction | Issue 43
Fiction | Issue 43

Heavy Weather

Helen Simpson

‘The baby was now three months old, and she had not had more than half an hour alone since his birth in February.’

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