Emily Horton is Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK, and at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Monica Germanà is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing: Fiction Since 1978 (EUP, 2010).

[This book] is a timely and interesting guide to Smith's contribution to contemporary literature ... a useful guide for students ...it paves the way for further exploration of Smith as one of the foremost contemporary women writers of the twenty-first century. -- Emma Young, University of Lincoln Contemporary Women's Writing, Vol. 9.1

• Foreword: Marina Warner Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgements Contributors Chronology of Ali Smith's Life INTRODUCTION Monica Germanà (University of Westminster) and Emily Horton (Brunel University)CHAPTER ONE Contemporary Space and Affective Ethics in Ali Smith's Short StoriesEmily Horton (Brunel University)CHAPTER TWO Simile and Similarity in Ali Smith's LikeIan Blyth (University of St Andrews)CHAPTER THREENarrating Remainders: Spectral Presences in Ali Smith's FictionsStephen M. Levin (Clarke University) CHAPTER FOURAli Smith and the Philosophy of GrammarMark Currie (Queen Mary's University of London)CHAPTER FIVEQueer Metamorphoses: Girl Meets Boy and the Futures of Queer FictionKaye Mitchell (University of Manchester)CHAPTER SIXNarrating Intrusion: Deceptive Storytelling and Frustrated Desires in The Accidental and There but for theUlrike Tancke (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)CHAPTER SEVEN“The Space That Wrecks Our Abode”: The Stranger in Ali Smith's Hotel World and The AccidentalPatrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University)CHAPTER EIGHTIdiosyncrasy and Currency: Ali Smith and the Contemporary CanonDominic Head (University of Nottingham) CHAPTER NINE'The Uncanny can happen': Desire and Belief in The SeerMonica Germanà (University of Westminster)AFTERWORD'Sidekick playing the same tune': Writing Ali Smith in NorwegianMerete AlfsenINTERVIEWGillian Beer interviews Ali SmithReferences Works Cited by ContributorsFurther ReadingWorks by Ali SmithCritical MaterialIndex