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Artful by Ali Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Artful presents, in book form, four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. Full of both ...Show more
Artful by Ali Smith
$45.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Here, in book form, are four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University, a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: 'On Time', 'On Form', 'On Edge' and 'On Offer and On Reflection'. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, "Artful" is narrated by a ...Show more
Autumn by Ali Smith
$29.00 NZD
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
Brilliant Careers by Ali Smith
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A definitive collection of 101 short pieces from 1900 to 2000 this is an invaluable volume of women's writing this century
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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?W ...Show more
Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
Girl Meets Boy : The Myth of Iphis (Myth Series) by Ali Smith
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Myth Ser.
Another internationally acclaimed writer contributes a fascinating, compelling reinterpretation of a myth that resonates deeply today. Ligdus and Telethusa are having a child, but they cannot afford to have a girl. Ligdus informs Telethusa that she had better hope for a boy. While this decision makes th ...Show more
Hotel World by Ali Smith
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Woooooooo-hooooooo. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth ...Show more
How to be Both by Ali Smith
$26.00 NZD
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
Like by Ali Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
New Writing 13 by Toby Litt & Ali Smith (eds)
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
New writing from established writers and names to watch.
Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$27.00 NZD
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