Ali Smith

• May-2026
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From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.Ghosts don't exist.  They don't. End of. Story, however.  It is haunting. Everything tells it.  It a...

• Feb-2025
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowingAn uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A no...

• Jun-2024
• / General Fiction
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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...

• May-2022
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"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 ...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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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 ...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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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,...

• Jan-2018
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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...

• Feb-2017
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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...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Nov-2015
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• Mar-2015
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• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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Captain O is a pirate with a heart of gold. Read his adventures as he sails the seven seas, has adventures on land and sea and in space, often having to choose between making a friend or making a fortune. Captain O and the mermaid is the first book i...

• Dec-2014
• / Historical
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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...

• Jun-2013
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• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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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...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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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...

• May-2009
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• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Jan-2006
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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...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Mar-2004
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Dec-2001
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Aug-1998
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Mar-1901
• / General Fiction
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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...