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A Novel

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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 all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it real?... ... Read more

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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 all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it real?...
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Gliff

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From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowingSet in an uncertain future, where children are recruited by the surveillance state and new boundaries are drawn between people daily, Gliff begins when two siblings, Rose and Briar, are deposited by their mother's partner, Leif, in an empty house, in a city entirely new to them. Left alone ... Read more

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From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowingSet in an uncertain future, where children are recruited by the surveillance state and new boundaries are drawn between people daily, Gliff begins when two siblings, Rose and Briar, are deposited by their mother's partner, Leif, in an empty house, in a city entirely new to them. Left alone
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Artful

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The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our livesA book that refuses to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted-literally-by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature.A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a ... Read more

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The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our livesA book that refuses to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted-literally-by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature.A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a
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The Ballad of Speedball Baby

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A Stylist Magazine (UK) pick for Best New NonfictionA That Eric Alper pick for My Next ReadsThe Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply.As... ... Read more

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A Stylist Magazine (UK) pick for Best New NonfictionA That Eric Alper pick for My Next ReadsThe Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply.As...
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Companion Piece

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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE*“Think of [Companion Piece] as a B-side to the seasonal quartet*—more up-to-the-minute observations of our confusing world, more playful language to get lost in.” • ONE OF THE MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—The National UK, The Guardian UK, iNews, Financial Times, Daily Mail UK, The Irish Times, Evening Standard, New Statesman, The Scotsman, ... Read more

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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE*“Think of [Companion Piece] as a B-side to the seasonal quartet*—more up-to-the-minute observations of our confusing world, more playful language to get lost in.” • ONE OF THE MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—The National UK, The Guardian UK, iNews, Financial Times, Daily Mail UK, The Irish Times, Evening Standard, New Statesman, The Scotsman,
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Public Library and Other Stories

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A book of stories all about why books mean the world to usWhy are books, in all their forms, so very powerful?What do the books we've read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us?What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?The stories in Ali Smith's new collection, The Library and Other Stories, are about what we do ... Read more

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A book of stories all about why books mean the world to usWhy are books, in all their forms, so very powerful?What do the books we've read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us?What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?The stories in Ali Smith's new collection, The Library and Other Stories, are about what we do
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Winter

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Series Book 2 - Seasonal Quartet
**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.Shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Political Writing“A stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history.” —Time**Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, ... Read more

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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.Shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Political Writing“A stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history.” —Time**Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone,
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How to be both

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**BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take."Cements Smith’s reputation as one of the finest and most innovative of our contemporary writers. By some divine alchemy, she is both funny and moving; she combines intellectual rigor with whimsy." —The Los Angeles Review of Books**How to be both is a ... Read more

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**BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take."Cements Smith’s reputation as one of the finest and most innovative of our contemporary writers. By some divine alchemy, she is both funny and moving; she combines intellectual rigor with whimsy." —The Los Angeles Review of Books**How to be both is a
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Girl Meets Boy

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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 she had better hope for a boy. While this decision makes them both sad, Telethusa “must/obey.” She prays to Isis, but births a girl and names her Iphis, a ... Read more

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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 she had better hope for a boy. While this decision makes them both sad, Telethusa “must/obey.” She prays to Isis, but births a girl and names her Iphis, a
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The Whole Story and Other Stories

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A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet**'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard** ... Read more

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A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet**'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard**
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Like

by Ali Smith ...

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 teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the ghostly repercussions.By turns funny, haunting and disconcertingly moving, LIKE soars across hidden borders between cultures, countries, ... Read more

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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 teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the ghostly repercussions.By turns funny, haunting and disconcertingly moving, LIKE soars across hidden borders between cultures, countries,
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Autumn

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Series Book 1 - Seasonal Quartet
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017From the 2015 Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both: An unconventional love story playing across the boundaries of time and history. . .**The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017From the 2015 Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both: An unconventional love story playing across the boundaries of time and history. . .**The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness
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