Shena Mackay

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1997
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Advent Calendar

    Another native Scot, Mackay published this comic novel to acclaim in 1971. The story takes place during the 25 days of advent leading up to Christmas, and though often funny, it deals with the great poverty of its characters and their attempts to fin...

  • Orchard on Fire

    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 wo...

  • Dreams Of Dead Women's Handbags

  • The World's Smallest Unicorn

    A new collection of short fiction by the author of The Orchard of Fire, a Booker Prize finalist, introduces a host of memorable and bizarre characters, including a would-be biographer who visits a home for retired clowns and an elderly, once-...

  • Heligoland

  • Old Crow

    When a lonely woman in a small 1958 English village bears a child after an affair with a transient painter, her scandalized neighbors, including a malicious widow, decide to cast her out and launch a bitter witch hunt. Reprint....

  • Bowl of Cherries

    Daphne and Rex live lives of well-to-do elegance while Rex's brother Stanley scrimps for tobacco and Camp coffee. Rex's daughter has also become a victim; her cruel husband has turned her into an eccentric skivvy. If life is a bowl of cherries, there...

  • The Atmospheric Railway

    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 admi...

  • The Running of the Deer



  • 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 sta...

  • The Artist's Widow

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shena Mackay has published 11 books.

Shena Mackay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dancing On the Outskirts, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Shena Mackay, Advent Calendar, was published in January 1997.

No. Shena Mackay does not write books in series.
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