Ali Smith

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

En la distopia de Gliff, la societat s’ha tornat tan desigual que ningú no veu els qui queden fora del sistema. El govern, amb la seva burocràcia implacable, destrueix sistemàticament les llars marca

A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smiths Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Winter? 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, Smith 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. Here comes Winter.Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smiths new novel, Companion piece, is available to pre-order now.*****Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen Daily Telegraph Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope Independent

Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour-de-forceIn 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.'Smith's seasonal quartet of novels is a bold and brilliant experiment' Independent'The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note' Sunday Times

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smiths Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant angry, but comforting The Times Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smiths new novel, Companion piece, is available now.*****ONE OF THE GUARDIANS BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant angry, but comforting The TimesBold and brilliant ObserverTerrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul Daily Mail

From 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 masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet'Luminous, generous, hope-filled . . .The third book in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet is her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices... [Ali Smith] is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' - ObserverWhat unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?Spring. The great connective.With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?Hope springs eternal.

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

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.