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Shena Mackay is one of the very best short-story writers in the world. The Atmospheric Railway contains not only thirteen brilliant new stories, but a selection of twenty-three more from her previous collection, making it a delight for her existing admirers and the...
Rich, vivid and dazzlingly funny, Shena Mackay's brilliant novel opens in 19th century New Zealand. Jack Mackenzie, the Presbyterian minister newly arrived from Scotland with his unhappy wife, enjoys the pleasures, botanical and carnal, that Dunedin offers. His...
Daphne and Rex live lives of well-to-do elegance while Rex’s brother Stanley has been condemned to scrimping for tobacco and Camp coffee. Daisy, Rex’s daughter, has also become a victim: her cruel, combing husband Julian Has turned her into an eccentric skivvy. If life...
Luke Ribbons is drifting away from parents, parish and old friends and -withluck-into the -arms of Pearl Slattery. He is dazzled by the sunsh ine and by the Slattery brood-but unfortunately Pearl doesn`t share this romantic vision. . .
Like an advent calendar, Shena Mackay`s novel opens mysterious doors on the bizarre lives of John Wood and his family who have moved into the decrepit North London house of an infirm uncle and are all facing Christmas with problems of poverty, impossible love and...
THE ARTIST'S WIDOW opens in Mayfair gallery at the private view of the last paintings of John Crane, where we meet Lyris Crane, the artist's widow and a painter in her own right. Also present are several other key players in the drama, all of whom are drawn to Lyris for...
When, with the franklessness of youth, Sidonie O'Neill becomes the lover of her neighbours, Pam and Lenny, she finds herself in a state of limbo as she veers between the two, heedless of the chaos around her and of Lenny`s increasingly obsessive behaviour. . .
The transition of Coral Fairweather from village beauty to village outcast begins with the fathering of her child by a vagrant painter. Soon, fuelled by suspicion, gossip and spurred on by a malicious widow, the village`s bitter witch-hunt speeds up a terrifying climax.
When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub, for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby, whose red hair and brutal home life emphasise her love of...
The Nautilus, a strange building shaped like the chambered shell of the same name, was built in South London in the early 1930s. Designed on Modernist and Utopian principles, it was a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists....
In 'Till the Cows Come Home', Bonfire Night 1956 is fast approaching, and while mother-of-one Ruby proudly carries her immaculate 'Bonfire Cake' into the middle room, her devilish daughter Garnet is upstairs tormenting her school friend and temporary houseguest, Jane....
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