John Murray

Gimme Shelter

Heliogland

By

Jonathan Cape 199pp £15.99 order from our bookshop

FEW CAN MATCH Shena Mackav when it comes to mordant comic observation. Witness the thoughts of the elderly idealist Celeste Zylberstein, founder member of the Thirties Nautilus community, as she contemplates present-day England:

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