Publications


Novels

Captain Starlight's Apprentice

Published in hardback by Hodder Headline in May 2006
Shortlisted for the Kibble Prize
Serialised on BBC Radio 4.

“A tour de force”
- Melbourne Age

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The Accomplice
Published in hardback by Hodder Headline in May 2003
- Winner Arts Council of England Writer's Award
- Shortlisted for W A Premier's Prize

“A superb mix of lyricism and economy”
- Sunday Herald

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The Breaking
Published in hardback by Phoenix House (Orion) in May 1997
- Shortlisted for Scottish Writer of the Year
- Longlisted for Orange Prize

“Heyman reveals her pedigree as a poet and playwright in stunning language and original imagery... profoundly moving.”
- The Scotsman

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Keep Your Hands on the Wheel
Published in hardback by Phoenix House (Orion) in June 1999
- Southern Arts Writer's Bursary
- Adapted for BBC Radio 4

"Heyman's impressively chameleon writing—now sparkling, then striking, twisting to ticklingly humoruous, then gently poetic—shines a bright light on the past itself in vivid, revelatory flashbacks.... It is brilliant."
- Scotsman

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Short fiction

Looking for Sylvia
Published in Gas and Air
Dawson and Daly, eds.
Bloomsbury, London, 2002
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Lowlands
Published in Something Wicked Susie Maguire and Amanda Hargreaves, eds.
Polygon, Edinburgh, 2002
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Sunflowers
Published in Wild Ways
Daly and Dawson, eds.
Sceptre, London, 1998
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Chasing Stallions
Published in Flamingo Book of New Scottish Writing
Mandy Kirkby, ed.
HarperCollins, London, 1997
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No Name
Published in Shorts (The Best of the MacAllan)
Robert Alan Jamieson, ed.
Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998

Poetry
Archetype and Shadow
Poetry collection, published as part of the New Voices series, 1995