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The Accidental by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph'A beguiling page-turner... To read The Accidental is to ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
$9.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | 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
The Accidental by Ali Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 who could be bionic, when jump jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, th ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo Len Rix (Translator); Ali Smith (Introduction by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, ca ...Show more
The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, "The First Person and Other Stories" sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarke ...Show more
The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"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 ...Show more
The Reader by Ali Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This is a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, a child. This is a book full of pieces from wonderful writers - Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood. But it is also full of lesser known writers about which ...Show more
The Story of Antigone by Ali Smith
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Save the Story Ser.
"The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall." Thus begins Ali Smith's masterful retelling of Sophocles' tragedy about a young Theban princess, who decides to bury ...Show more
The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to . . . How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coinc ...Show more
There But For The by Ali Smith
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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, w ...Show more
There but for the by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ali Smith, twice shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes, is back with the sparkling "There but for the"...'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people wh ...Show more