Read Heligoland book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2013. Her London is not a convenient backdrop - it is the capital itself, vividly and freshly set down in glancing detail - Paul Bailey Independent A rich feast to be enjoyed page by page as Mackay, in often dazzling prose, describes the hilarious antics of bibulous writers or, with moving lyricism, those 'surprised by joy' Kirkus What a superbly imaginative writer she is. Amazon.in - Buy Heligoland book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. His house is on his back, he can slither into it whenever he likes, and as long as no blundering oaf comes by. Designed on Modernist and Utopian principles, it was a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists. She writes like an angel wielding a scalpel, dissecting her characters with sublime, sharp-edged prose Guardian Her prose is flawlessly seductive and comic, confidently witty and sensual - Julie Myerson Independent on Sunday She is a dazzling sort of a writer - Rachel Cooke Shena Mackay notices a London that passes most writers by. Heligoland is a novel by British author Shena Mackay, first published in 2003 by Jonathan Cape.1 It was shortlisted for both Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Whitbread prizes, Shena Mackays Heligoland centres on the inhabitants of the Nautilus, an unusual property built. Heligoland SHENA MACKAY Consider the snail. The Nautilus, a strange building shaped like the chambered shell of the same name, was built in South London in the early 1930s.

Heligoland by Shena Mackay