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.

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.