
Heligoland
by Shena Mackay | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099273594 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0099273594 Global Overview for this book
Registered by abitstormyout of Ely, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on 7/11/2008
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I actually found this in the Frinton Hospice Bookshop. It had already been registered to BookCrossing some time ago but I have been unable to make the old number work. BC Support ignored my requests for help so I am re-registering it with a new number.
Amazon.co.uk Synopsis:
The Nautilus, a strange building shaped like the chambered shell of the same name, was built in South London in the early 1930's. Designed on Modernist and Utopian principles, it was a haven for a floating community of cosmpolitan 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 Francis Campion, an elderly poet. Gus Crabb, a dealer in bric-a-brac, is the only other resident until, to the Nautilus, like a hermit crab seeking a home, comes Rowena Snow. Of Indian/Scottish parentage, orphaned without family or friends, Rowena is in search of her own Utopia - or the Heligoland of her childhood imagination.
Amazon.co.uk Synopsis:
The Nautilus, a strange building shaped like the chambered shell of the same name, was built in South London in the early 1930's. Designed on Modernist and Utopian principles, it was a haven for a floating community of cosmpolitan 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 Francis Campion, an elderly poet. Gus Crabb, a dealer in bric-a-brac, is the only other resident until, to the Nautilus, like a hermit crab seeking a home, comes Rowena Snow. Of Indian/Scottish parentage, orphaned without family or friends, Rowena is in search of her own Utopia - or the Heligoland of her childhood imagination.

Journal Entry 2 by abitstormyout at Caffe Nero in Sudbury, Suffolk United Kingdom on Friday, July 18, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (7/18/2008 UTC) at Caffe Nero in Sudbury, Suffolk United Kingdom
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Taking to Caffe Nero to restock the rather empty shelf!
Taking to Caffe Nero to restock the rather empty shelf!