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
From the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes this stunning collection of stories set in a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, m
From the critically acclaimed author of Hotel World comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made.What happens when
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
Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seas
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The Uni
Winner of multiple major prizes—the Baileys, the Costa, the Goldsmiths, and the Saltire—and shortlisted for the Booker: How to be both is a daring, inventive novel that intertwines the stories of a de
The Whitbread Award-winning author of The Accidental presents a meditative collection of stories on the nature of art and storytelling as they evolved through her 2012 Weidenfeld lectures on European
