Hotel World

Hotel World – shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001 – by Ali Smith, award-winning Scottish author of The Accidental, intimately explores the lives of five women connected by one hotel.

The kind of novel that is as rare as good room service, Ali Smith’s Hotel World is a passionate, funny, serious, captivating glimpse into the lives for five people connected to one ranch of the ubiquitous Global Hotel chain. Brought together – and forced apart – by a bizarre incident involving a dumb waiter, we share their very different experiences of life in the aftermath of death, of pain and sorrow, of hope and love – everything, in fact, that the world dares to throw at us.

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize; and The First Person and Other Stories (2008).

‘Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her’ Jeanette Winterson

‘An extremely readable, easy-flowing writer and one of the subtlest and most intelligent around. Hotel World is essential reading from a writer confirming herself as a major talent…a wonderful piece of sustained imagination’ Independent

‘As infectious as a pop song, the story bursts open form the very first page and demands to be read in one sitting’ The Times

The award-winning Ali Smith is one of the most talented modern British writers; her novels, The Accidental and There but for the, and her collections of short stories, Other Stories and Other Stories, The First Person and Other Stories and The Whole Story and Other Stories, are available in Penguin paperback.

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