Heligoland by Shena Mackay5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() New tenant Gus Crabb, an antiques dealer of faintly roguish mien who has moved into the Nautilus having just been left by his wife and children, is quite without these literary credentials. ![]() Francis Campion is a querulous minor poet, worrying away at slights and glancing condescensions in various biographies and literary histories Celeste Zylberstein is of Jewish and central European extraction, the widow of Arkady, another man of letters. It now houses just two of its elderly pioneers. This was established as the location of a Bloomsbury-ish bohemian community of yore, with lavish bar, magnificent library and a printing press long since fallen into disuse. ![]() Set amid heavy gravel in which an anchor and chain have been whimsically placed, it seems as if the house should be on a seashore, but it is in fact in the London suburbs. The venue is the Nautilus, an eccentric house designed in the 1930s which resembles a seashell and whose rooms look like a shell's chambers. ![]()
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