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A collection of exquisitely observed stories . . . Mackay will introduce us to the apparently trifling thoughts of a host of solitary characters and show us, with wonderful imaginative power, interior lives that are expansive, wondrous and tender. And even when her subjects are sad, the great power of her noticing, and her frequently piercing prose, transforms them into something vibrant and tender: her worlds are illuminated by glistening col...

A collection of stories that combine the macabre and the mundane, by a writer with a sharp eye for the telling detail.

«John hatte die beste aller denkbaren Entschuldigungen, warum er heute abend nicht pünktlich kam.» Johns Ausstellung wird an diesem Abend in einer exklusiven Galerie in Soho eröffnet, und er hat Glück im Unglück: Er darf seine Vernissage schwänzen, denn er ist kürzlich verstorben. Und so muß sich Lyris, seine Witwe, dem Rummel der champagnerschlürfenden, wichtigtuerischen und prätentiösen Londoner Kunstszene aussetzen - keiner der Gäste inter...

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What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. Ruby and I stared at it and each other . . . dark-windowed, out of place in a thicket of thorns, it was the perfect hide-out, house, the camp of our dreams'When April's parents move from London to rural Kent she makes her first best friend. With flame-haired, fearless Ruby, April shares secrets, dare...

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 p...

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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.Now, at the end of the century, only two of the original inhabitants still occupy their chambers - Celeste Zylberstein, joint architect with her late husband of the Nautilus, and F...

Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, "The Orchard on Fire" tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency, who is coming of age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the prejudices and vagaries of the adult world.