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Autumn by Ali Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Autumn by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal Quartet'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.'Here we are in extraordinary times.Is this history?What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other?What have we lost?Wha ...Show more
Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity, and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connecti ...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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Like by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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, ha ...Show more
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
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 ...Show more
Rights of Man by H. G. Wells & Ali Smith (intr.)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
H. G. Wells' revolutionary human rights manifesto is reissued by Penguin with a new introduction by fellow novelist and human rights campaigner Ali Smith 'Penguin and Pelican Specials are books of topical importance published within as short a time as possible from receipt of the manuscript. Some are r ...Show more
Spring by Ali Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Seasonal Quartet | Reading Level: very good
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.
Summer by Ali Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Summer by Ali Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | 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