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Artful

Ali Smith

Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, this title is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the…

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Winter

Ali Smith

Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen…

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Summer: Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021

Ali Smith

The dazzling, unforgettable conclusion to Ali Smith’s tour de force, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their…

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Autumn

Ali Smith

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of pop art, Autumn is [an] … excavation of the present by the past. The…

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How to be Both

Ali Smith

Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real.

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Girl Meets Boy

Ali Smith

A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid’s Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both

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Spring

Ali Smith

Unmissable third instalment in the bestselling, critically adored, dazzling inventive novel cycle, the Seasonal Quartet

What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north…

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There but for the

Ali Smith

There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of…

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Hotel World

Ali Smith

Featuring five people, this book focuses on these characters and traces their intersecting lives.

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Companion piece: The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of How to be both

Ali Smith

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal Quartet

'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.'

Here we are in…

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Like

Ali Smith

Ali Smith's "beautifully written, precise, poetic" (The Observer) debut that follows the briefly intertwined lives of two young women

When we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling…

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The Accidental

Ali Smith

Korean edition of THE ACCIDENTAL. The book was short listed by the Man Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize. A psychic / mentally unstable woman managed to manipulate each…

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Companion Piece

Ali Smith

"A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and…

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Artful

Ali Smith

Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives

In February 2012, the novelist…

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The Ballad Of Speedball Baby

Ali Smith

As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents' toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and…

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Public library and other stories

Ali Smith

Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our…

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The First Person and Other Stories

Ali Smith

Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, the author explores the ways and whys of storytelling.

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Furies

Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.

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The Ballad of Speedball Baby Lib/E

Ali Smith

The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith--coming of age in '90s New York--who commits to the messy, exhilarating life of…

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The Ballad of Speedball Baby

Ali Smith

The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life…

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The Ballad of Speedball Baby

Ali Smith

The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life…

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The Ballad of Speedball Baby

Ali Smith

The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life…

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The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers

Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.

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The Hearing Trumpet

Leonora Carrington

One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds…

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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield’s clear and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre. This collection represents the whole range of her writing from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three…

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The Ballad of Speedball Baby

Ali Smith

The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life…

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Poems, Stories and Writings

Margaret Tait

The first gathering of work by the pioneering filmmaker, writer and poet Margaret Tait reissued as a Carcanet Classic.

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A Very Easy Death

Simone de Beauvoir

Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother’s death.

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Reunion: Introduction by Ali Smith

Fred Uhlman

‘A brilliant work of art that deserves a far wider readership’ Ian McEwan FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNION Reunion is a little-known novel.

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories…

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Narrative Techniques in Ali Smith’s Like

Kathrin Gerbe

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Siegen, course: Contemporary Scottish Writers, 13 entries in the…

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Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her…

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Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her…

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Edvard Munch

A thought-provoking volume on Edvard Munch's often neglected pictures of nature, exploring the Norwegian artist's landscapes, seascapes, and existential environments in light of his own time and ours.

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The Whole Story and Other Stories

Ali Smith

How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, just be…

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The Seer

Ali Smith

An original and hilarious contemporary comedy from the Whitbread award-winning author of The Accidental

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Artful

Ali Smith

The brilliantly inventive novelist Ali Smith melds fiction and essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of story in our lives.

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Artful

Ali Smith

The brilliantly inventive novelist Ali Smith melds fiction and essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of story in our lives.

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Artful

Ali Smith

The brilliantly inventive novelist Ali Smith melds fiction and essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of story in our lives.

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There But For The: A Novel

Ali Smith

From the award-winning author of Hotel World and The Accidental, a dazzling, funny, and wonderfully exhilarating new novel. At a posh dinner party in a London suburb, one of the…

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Companion Piece: A Novel

Ali Smith

Award-winning author Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now with a provocative novel grounded both in the contemporary era and in the uncannily familiar era…

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Hotel World

Ali Smith

Shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize, Hotel World showcases the talent of a major new novelist. Sara Wilby, a hotel chambermaid, falls to her death in the dumbwaiter yet lingers…

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Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis

Ali Smith

In Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith reinterprets the Myth of Iphis, the girl who became a boy, as a brilliant hybrid of satire and romantic comedy. This is a warm…

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Public Library and Other Stories

Ali Smith

Why are books so very powerful? The stories in this collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us and…

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In the Spirit of Spark: The Muriel Spark Society Lecture

Ali Smith

Full transcript of Ali Smith’s Muriel Spark lecture, given in November 2017.

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