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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. 'A maestra's portrait of her age . .. remarkable' GuardianIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble.Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer.A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers.So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common? Summer. Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.*****'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith make

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterp

"The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall." Thus begins

Ali Smith, twice shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes, is back with the sparkling There but for the...'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at

Ali Smith, twice shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes, is back with the sparkling There but for the...'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at

Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woma

Winner of the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award, shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Prize, The Accidental by Scottish author Ali Smith is a novel about what happens to one family w

A brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to . . . How do you ever know t

Other Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith, the award-winning Scottish author of Hotel World and The Accidental.

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 connec

The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate AtkinsonA teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a

There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland.Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which te

Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, this book features forms, times, truths and fictions.