The story of two women living in the Earls Court area of London. When, with the fecklessness 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.

Music Upstairs

Literature & Fiction

MACKAY, Shena

Contemporary

Minerva

World's Smallest Unicorn

Vintage Books

The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories

Shena Mackay, one of the very best short story writers in the world, has written thirteen brilliant new stories. This collection also contains twenty-three more from her previous collections, making The Atmospheric Railway a delight for existing admirers and newcomers alike.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the predjuices and vagaries of the adult world. When April encounters the red-haired, energetic Ruby Richards, the two girls become fast friends. Together, they abandon the physical and mental abuse forced on them by adults in their lives and transform an abandoned railway car in an orchard into their secret hideaway, an idyllic camp of shared dreams.

Orchard On Fire: A Novel

Dramas & Plays

Harvest Books

A collection of tales ranging from hilarious to chilling includes the story of a novelist who stumbles upon memories from her horrific past while devising the plot for her next mystery

Dreams Of Dead Women's Handbags: Collected Stories

Mariner Books

The artist's widow

JONATHAN CAPE.

Cover clean, crisp, interior is clean with no marks, no underlining or highlighting, binding is tight, a very nice copy throughout__all books are wrapped and padded well__books ship same or next day with order tracking

The World's Smallest Unicorn

Heligoland

The Literary Review: “The heart lifts at the prospect of a collection of stories by Shena Mackay. You can be certain of various elements: laughter, a touch of the blade, underlying shadows, wit, sharpness of perception.”

Dancing On the Outskirts

Here is a wonderful collection of short stories by the writer known for 'the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house, its threshold radiant with tiling and stained-glass birds of paradise encased in leaded lights' - Guardian. Shena Mackay, who first came to fame before the age of twenty with two novellas, is the doyenne of the short form. In this volume of previously uncollected stories - including those read on radio - she constantly surprises with a view of the ordinary world that is not at all ordinary. A grasshopper determinedly takes up residence on a bathroom ceiling; a gecko hiding in a cupboard brings a strange sort of luck; a woman spies from a distance two older women friends after many long years and a memory of how they gallopedin the playground as Starlight Blaze and Pepperpot plays sweetly, suddenly in her mind; pigs are swaddled in blankets, looking like babies in shawls; luggage is packed with youthful hopes and ideals. She observes how people rub along and reveals the best and worst of us all: a disgruntled schoolboy and his hapless teacher conquer mountains and their antipathy for each other; a girl with green eyes and iridescent hair discovers revenge; a race to be the best mushroom-picker creates only losers; and rotten apples, in the right pair of hands, make a loving pie. Shena Mackay is a generous and keen-eyed chronicler of the everyday; she deftly brings wisdom and humour to the worlds she creates, worlds that we suddenly, excitingly see anew. She is an utterly original writer.

Literary

Virago

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Music Upstairs

World's Smallest Unicorn

The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories

Orchard On Fire: A Novel

Dreams Of Dead Women's Handbags: Collected Stories

The artist's widow

The World's Smallest Unicorn

Heligoland

The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories

Dancing On the Outskirts