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Autumn by Ali Smith
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Autumn 2016 - Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK 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. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation ...Show more
Autumn by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Series: Seasonal
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both 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 ...Show more
Browse: The World in Bookshops by Ali Smith
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Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
Edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, passionate, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential, but endangered, institutions: the bookshop. From Denmark to Egypt, from the USA to China, Browse brings together some o ...Show more
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Series: The follow-up to the Seasonal Quartet
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, betw ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
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Category: FICTION
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
How To Be Both by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be Bothis a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation betwee ...Show more
How to be Both by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTWINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Financial Times Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulou ...Show more
Spring: 'A dazzling hymn to hope' Observer by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, 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 Peri ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser.
In 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 borro ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Series: Seasonal Quartet
The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith's dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted, Seasonal Quartet. In 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 ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is interrupted by a beguiling stranger called Amber. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think in an entirely new way. A novel about how seemingly chance encounters irrevoc ...Show more
Winter by Ali Smith
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Category: FICTION | Series: Seasonal Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths.It's December in Cornwall and Art's mother is seeing things. Art has problems too. His girlfriend has left so he's payi ...Show more