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Shena Mackay
By the Author
The Atmospheric Railway
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…
The Artist's Widow
The Artist's Widow is the story of the good, the bad and the untalented. It begins on a hot August evening in Mayfair, at a…
Redhill Rococo
The young Luke Ribbons, a vicar's son and lately a guest of Her Majesty, arrives into the rackety Slattery household as a lodger, and falls…
Dunedin
New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen…
The Orchard on Fire
'Shena Mackay has brought off something quite rare . . . the author has set out a rite of passage which will leave few readers…
The World's Smallest Unicorn and Other Stories
Here is a wonderful collection of short stories by the writer known for 'the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as…
The Laughing Academy
The Laughing Academy is as witty, black and compelling as anything Shena Mackay has written. From antiques fayres to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, geriatric wards to Crystal Palace,…
Old Crow
The transition of Coral Fairweather from village beauty to village outcast begins in the short golden days of autumn with the fathering of her first…
Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags
In stories as intriguing as their titles - 'Pink Cigarettes', 'Electric Blue Damsels', 'Other People's Bathrobes' - Shena Mackay demonstrates her uncanny ability to expose…
A Bowl of Cherries
In A Bowl of Cherries Shena Mackay tells the story of twin brothers whose lives are inexorably intertwined: Rex, a self-absorbed and successful writer, and…
Babies in Rhinestones and Other Stories
In 'Babies in Rhinestones', the Alfred Ellis School of Fine Art and the Araidne School Elliot School of Dance and Drama stand side by side,…
An Advent Calendar
The story begins as an ambulance pulls away from the butcher's shop, taking Mick to the hospital after he has carelessly hacked off a finger…
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…
The Virago Book Of Such Devoted Sisters
Never were there such devoted sisters...or so the song would have it. Though some may be inseparable, for others the relationship arouses intense, tangled emotions.…