Heligoland

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 198. Pictorial wraps, with cover photo by Chris Frazer Smith.

Signed by Mackay to title page.

Author's ninth novel. Shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Whitbread Novel Award. Longlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.

A young woman in search of her own utopia moves into the Nautilus, a 1930s South London building designed on modernist and utopian principles and a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists, upsetting – in the process – the status quo between the remaining residents.

"She writes like an angel wielding a scalpel, dissecting her characters with sublime, sharp-edged prose." –Guardian