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Brought to you by Penguin. A sparkling satire from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and...

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

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...

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . . ." First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute essay, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels...

Dios había muerto: para empezar. Y el romanticismo había muerto. La gallardía había muerto. La poesía, la novela, la pintura, todas habían muerto, y el arte había muerto. El teatro y el cine habían muerto. La literatura había muerto. Muchísimas cosas habían muerto. Sin embargo, otras no habían muerto, de momento. La vida todavía no había muerto. La revolución no había muerto. La igualdad racial no había muerto. El odio no había muerto.

La escritora escocesa Ali Smith es una de las autoras más destacadas de los últimos años en el Reino Unido y su Cuarteto estacional, uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos e inspiradores de la literatura europea actual. 

¿Qué une a Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, el Brexit, el presente, el pasado, un hombre de luto por los tiempos perdidos, una mujer atrapada en los tiempos modernos? La respuesta está en Primavera, una novela luminosa, generosa y llena de esperanza, en la que, al igual que en Otoño e Invierno, la autora escocesa está haciendo algo más que analizar las injusticias de nuestra época: nos ilumina el camino para salir de la pesadilla.

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

Band 2 des sensationellen Nummer-1-Bestseller-Quartetts aus Großbritannien: Das fulminante Meisterwerk von Booker-Prize-Finalistin Ali Smith. Winter – die kürzesten Tage, die längsten Nächte. Eine Jahreszeit, die uns das Überleben lehrt. Vier Leute, Fremde und Familie, verbringen Weihnachten in einem riesigen Haus in Cornwall, und doch stellt sich die Frage, ob jeder genug Platz findet.

Brought to you by Penguin. A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her...

From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark. Ghosts don’t exist. They don’t. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a...

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. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love...

Der sensationelle Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Großbritannien: Das fulminante Meisterwerk von Booker-Prize-Finalistin Ali Smith. England im Herbst 2016: Das Land hat einen historischen Sommer hinter sich, die Nation ist tief gespalten, und Angst macht sich breit. Mitten in dieser Zeit des Umbruchs besucht die junge Kunsthistorikerin Elisabeth einen alten Weggefährten im Heim. Daniel ist ein Jahrhundert alt. Er war einst ihr Nachbar und hat ihr als Kind die Welt der Fantasie eröffnet.

En el presente, Sacha sabe que el mundo está en problemas. Su hermano Robert sólo es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el mundo está en crisis, y la verdadera debacle ni siquiera ha comenzado todavía. En el pasado, un verano encantador. Un Un hermano y una hermana diferentes saben que están viviendo en el tiempo prestado.

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Brought to you by Penguin. Ghosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all...

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . it could have only been written by Ali Smith. An intimate study of grief that makes you glad to be alive' Jackie Kay 'Playful...

Brought to you by Penguin. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation...

I 1500-tallets England strejfer en forældreløs pige rundt. Det er mørke tider: epidemier raser, brutalitet og barbari råder. Pigen kommer i lære hos en kvindelig smed, og det er netop smedekunsten og et uventet venskab, der holder hende oppe. Femhundrede år senere har en ny epidemi ramt England og verden. Sandy Gray, en billedkunstner midt i livet, frygter at smitte sin skrøbelige far, der er indlagt efter et slagtilfælde. Derfor vil hun heller ikke se nogen mennesker, hun har i det hele taget besluttet sig for at melde sig ud af samfundet.

"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 retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury...