Ali Smith

A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, spellbinding and shapeshifting forms...It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer - written and published in as close as possible to real time, between 2016 and 2020, absorbing and refracting the times we are living through: the 'state-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us' (New Statesman).'Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer

«Y ahora os hablaré de cuando yo era una chica, dice nuestro abuelo».Así comienza esta novela en la que Ali Smith nos vuelve a sorprender, en esta ocasión revisitando las Metamorfosis de Ovidio. La h

La primer novela del exitoso Cuarteto Estacional de Ali Smith es una meditación sobre un mundo cada vez más limitado y exclusivo, sobre la riqueza y el valor, sobre lo que significa la cosecha.Es la primera entrega de su cuarteto estacional: cuatro libros independientes, separados pero interconectados y ciclicos (como son las estaciones); y nos hace reflexionar sobre el propio tiempo. ¿Quienes somos? ¿De que estamos hechos? Esta es una novela sobre el envejecimiento y el tiempo y el amor y las historias mismas.

Gliff es la nueva novela de Ali Smith, una novela distópica que alberga un rayo de esperanza. Bri y su hermana Rose viven temporalmente solos porque una emergencia familiar reclama a su madre lejos d

¿Invierno? Desolado. Viento helado, tierra como hierro, agua como piedra, dice la vieja canción. Los días más cortos, las noches más largas. Los árboles están desnudos y tiritando. ¿Las hojas del verano? Basura muerta. El mundo se encoge; la savia se hunde. Pero el invierno hace las cosas visibles. Y si hay hielo, habra fuego. En Invierno, de Ali Smith, la fuerza vital coincide con la temporada mas dura. En esta segunda novela de su aclamado Cuarteto estacional, la continuacion de su sensacional Otoño (Premi Llibreter 2019), el cuarteto de novelas cambiantes de Smith proyecta una mirada alegre sobre una era de posverdad sombria con una historia arraigada en la historia, la memoria y la calidez, su raiz principal en lo profundo de los arboles de hoja perenne: arte, amor, risa.

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be bothWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It's the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter.

"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self... "The First Person and Other Stories" nos llega sin esfuerzo al corazon, a la cabeza y a nuestros entusiasmados huesos Siempre dotada de un humor inteligente, pero tambien conmovedora y divertida, Smith explora los modos y maneras del relato En uno, una mujer de mediana edad mantiene una emocionante conversacion con su propio yo a los catorce años de edad...

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.Autumn is the first installment in Ali Smith''s novel quartet Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing and time and love and stories themselves.

Dues històries d’amor i d’injustícia separades per 500 anys i lligades amb un fil invisible. Un artista italià del Renaixement i una adolescent filla d’una activista política connectaran gràcies a la

Grandi classici, raccontati da grandi nomi della letteratura cosi come potrebbero raccontarli ai figli o nipoti, una sera, nel loro salotto."Save the story": frutto della collaborazione tra Scuola Holden e Gruppo Editoriale L''Espresso, e anche un ciclo di reading affidati a grandi scrittori presentato all''Auditorium Parco della Musica e coprodotto con la Fondazione Musica per Roma. Non un''operazione di riscrittura, ma un appassionato omaggio ai libri che piu abbiamo amato.Eta di lettura: da 8 anni.

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 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 are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history.

"L'accidental"és la vertiginosa i entretinguda història, perversament divertida, d’una misteriosa desconeguda --Amber-- que apareix de sobte durant les vacances d’estiu d’una família, els Smart, i tr

The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its narrator, ''Ali'', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, the stories in The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.

Discover Ali Smiths dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right nowAll four instalments of the quartet are available to buy and read in paperback and ebook now: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer A Book of the Year according to: the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Evening Standard, The Times.Dazzling Daily TelegraphWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summers leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if theres ice, therell be fire. In Ali Smiths Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smiths shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. Its the season that teaches us survival.

An acclaimed fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales by sixteen bestselling award winning writers

There once was a man who, one night at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party.... As time passes by and the consequences of this strangers actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartetOne day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university acquaintance Martina Pelf. Martina is calling Sandy to ask for help with a mysterious question shes been left with after shes spent half a day locked in a room by border control officials for no reason she can fathom: Curlew or curfew? You choose.And whats any of this got to do with the story of a young and talented blacksmith hounded from her trade and her home more than five hundred years ago?Ali Smiths novel takes wing, soaring between our atomised present and our medieval past in the hope we can open our locked down homes and selves to all the other times, other species, other histories, other possibilities.[An] entertaining and expert portrayal of the world we live in, seen by the most beguiling and likeable of novelistic intelligences Telegraph[Companion Piece] makes you look at the world afresh. For me, it turned a cold and depressing day into a bright one New StatesmanLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2

Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out. Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever. This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people? Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliche and grace. Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.