Ali Smith

What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers.

Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating, life-affirming book.

From the Man Booker-short-listed and Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both, the highly anticipated second novel in the acclaimed Seasonal series....

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past....

In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up the words that tell a story and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago....

From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing.

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold....

Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions....

From the Man Booker short-listed author of Autumn, Winter, and Spring comes Summer, the highly anticipated fourth novel in her acclaimed Seasonal Quartet....

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin...

Brought to you by Penguin. SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on...

Following her dazzling five-novel portrait of our age, the ‘Seasonal’ sequence, Ali Smith returns with the first of two novels which belong together but can be read independently....

Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, this is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions....

At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave....

In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother, Robert, just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble....

Ali Smith's "beautifully written, precise, poetic" (The Observer) debut follows the briefly intertwined lives of two young women.

Barefoot, thirtysomething Amber shows up at the door of a Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting....

Brought to you by Penguin. A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are...

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series—a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit....

Following her astonishing quartet of Seasonal novels, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its forms....