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How to be Both by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
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
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Twenty Stories About Breaking and Making Up by Ali Smith
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Love means never having to say you're sorry. No, love is in the air. No, love is the sweetest thing. No, it's soft as an easy chair. No, it's a stranger in an open car. No, it's a many-splendoured thing. No, it's the drug. No, it's like a butterfly. Oh, let's call the whole thing off. Love stories don't ...Show more
Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyo ...Show more
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Public Library and other Stories by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries ...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
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser.
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.
Spring: 'A dazzling hymn to hope' Observer by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
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
Summer (H/B) by Ali Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser.
'These novels, in straddling immediacy and permanence, the personal as well as the scope of a world tilting toward disaster, are the ones we might well be looking back on years from now as the defining literature of an indefinable era. And the shape the telling takes is, if not salvation, brilliance its ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for Booker Prize 2005 'Smith has a talent for finding unexpected flashes of beauty and comedy in the everyday' Julie Myerson, Daily Telegraph 'I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women ...Show more