The Guardian says of the book 'This is drawn so playfully and so compassionately and with such consistently beautiful writing that the experience is mysteriously comic and sweet. Seller Inventory think0224059343 More information about this seller Contact this seller Buy New US 90. Heligoland is a novel by British author Shena Mackay, first published in 2003 by Jonathan Cape. Her Collected Short Stories appeared in 1994. Heligoland MACKAY, Shena Published by Jonathan Cape (2003) ISBN 10: 0224059343 ISBN 13: 9780224059343 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: GoldBooks (Austin, TX, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. Heligoland : Mackay, Shena: Amazon. Among later novels are The Orchard on Fire (1996), an elegiac farce about childhood friendship, The Artist's Widow (1998), a satire on modern artistic values, and Heligoland (2003). In Dunedin (1992), a more ambitious work, the narrative swings from the beginning to the end of the 20th cent., providing a hellish vision of contemporary suburban London along the way.

A long literary silence was broken by a story collection, Babies in Rhinestones (1983), then the novels A Bowl of Cherries (1984) and Redhill Rococo (1986). Their successors, Music Upstairs (1965), Old Crow (1967), and An Advent Calendar (1971), established her mastery of brief, perfectly judged comic narratives, in which bizarre sequences of events often flow from tiny accidents, and where beneath the offhand ironies one can detect Mackay's profound sympathy for her characters' damaged lives. Shena Mackay FRSL (born 1944) is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. Her first two, very short novels, Toddler on the Run and Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger, were published together in 1964, when she was only 19. Scottish novelist and short‐story writer, born in Edinburgh.

Heligoland by Shena Mackay