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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1901
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Book List in Order: 25 titles



  • A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light o...



  • Ali Smith's "beautifully written, precise, poetic" (The Observer) debut that follows the briefly intertwined lives of two young womenWhen we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling to raise Kate, a precocious eight-year-old. Amy is an enigma...



  • Following the huge success of our previous collections, this year´s Shorts volume will be the Scottish short story collection. Having already launched the writing careers of several new authors, this year´s collection, selected from over 2,000 entr...



  • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating, life-affir...



  • From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train stat...



  • Other Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith. Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourse...



  • Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday trans...



  • Another internationally acclaimed writer contributes a fascinating, compelling reinterpretation of a myth that resonates deeply today. Ligdus and Telethusa are having a child, but they cannot afford to have a girl. Ligdus informs Telethusa that sh...



  • In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In "Astute Fiery Luxurious," a fetid misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into dis...






  • From the award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best -- and without which she would not have become a writer. The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what Ali Smith ha...





  • Successful, good-looking and... still single. With down-to-earth honesty and transparency, television news anchor Ali Smith chronicles her journey of learning to hear, trust and wait on God for Mr. Right. With several short-lived relationships in the...



  • At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the hou...





  • Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, HOW TO BE BOTH is a novel all about art’s vers...






  • 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 unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in...



  • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The first novel in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love -- and stories themselves. Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends -- Daniel, a cent...






  • From Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith, Winter is the second novel in her Seasonal Quartet. This much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn is one of the Best Books of the Year from the New York Public Library. “A stunning meditation on a com...



  • From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet -- a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke,...



  • The fourth novel in the Seasonal Quartet by Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith is “a prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke, and seizing the moment” (The New York Times).In the present, Sacha knows the world’s ...



  • "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 freedom.” -- The New York Times Book Review ...



  • A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Sta...



  • A moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowingSet in the present day, Gliff begins when a young woman inherits a suitcase from her dead grandmother, with no information other than the word "GLIFF" on the luggag...


Award-Winning Books by Ali Smith

The Accidental
2005 Costa Book Award -- Novel
How to Be Both
2014 Costa Book Award -- Novel
2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ali Smith has published 25 books.

The next book by Ali Smith, Gliff, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Ali Smith, Free Love and Other Stories, was published in March 1901.

No. Ali Smith does not write books in series.