Up the Junction

Up the Junction
First edition
AuthorNell Dunn
IllustratorSusan Benson
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacGibbon & Kee
Publication date
1963
Publication placeUK
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages110 pp (Hardcover edition) & 112 pp (paperback edition)
OCLC17230966

Up the Junction is a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction.[1]

The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people. The book won the 1963 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.

  1. ^ "Paperback review: Up the Junction, By Neil Dunn". The Independent. 31 August 2013.