Shena Mackay

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Shena Mackay


Born
Edinburgh, Scotland
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories


Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944 and currently lives in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and also Honorary Visiting Professor to the MA in Writing at Middlesex University.

Her novels include the black comedy Redhill Rococo (1986), winner of the Fawcett Society Book Prize; Dunedin (1992), which won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award; and the acclaimed The Orchard on Fire (1995) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Her novel Heligoland (2003) was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award.

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Average rating: 3.49 · 1,721 ratings · 269 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors
The Orchard on Fire
3.66 avg rating — 913 ratings — published 1995
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Heligoland
3.12 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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Dreams of Dead Women's Hand...
3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions
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Dunedin
2.97 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
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A Bowl Of Cherries
3.29 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1984 — 12 editions
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The Artist's Widow
3.16 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions
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Dust Falls on Eugene Schlum...
3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions
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Music Upstairs
2.88 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1965 — 7 editions
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Redhill Rococo
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions
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The Worlds Smallest Unicorn...
2.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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