Ali Smith - Böcker

En varm semesterdag kliver en ung kvinna över tröskeln hos den bekymrade familjen Smart. Hennes vita bil står parkerad vid vägkanten, kanske är den trasig. Innan någon i familjen hunnit förstå vad som händer har den främmande kvinnan bjudit in sig...

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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. 'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet...

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'Miraculous . . . tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting. A ray of hope' Paul Murray, Irish Times Once upon a time, not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint round the outside of their house . . . So begins ...

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Den har kommit att kallas den första post-brexit-romanen, utgiven bara några månader efter omröstningen. Det är hösten 2016. Daniel¿Gluck¿är 101 år. Han ligger i sin säng på äldreboendet och drömmer. Hans vän, konsthistorikern Elisabeth Demand, är...

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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 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. 'A maestra's portrait of her age...

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SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017A 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. 'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet e...

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A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers. 'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage ...

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Vad förenar Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, nutid, dåtid, norr, söder, öst, väst, en man som sörjer svunna tider, en kvinna fången i samtiden? ¿ Våren. Den stora förenaren. ¿ Genom ett filter av å ena s...

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014 WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard How to be both is a novel all about art's versatili...

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" Blomstrande, elektronisk, hyperventilerande prosa ger hopp om livet, kärleken och konsten " Sveriges Radio, Kulturnytt Den sista delen i Ali Smiths imponerande litterära kraftprov, Årstidskvartetten , handlar om sommaren. I samtiden finner vi Sa...

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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 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. 'Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a cho...

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'My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the café of the town's only cinema . . .' One hot summer a stranger arrives at the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family. Intriguing, beguiling, arresting, Amber brings love, joy, pain and n...

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Nominerad till Gordon Burn-priset 2022 »... både språk och logik är så i ordets vackraste mening poetiska, och de slapstickartade scenerna växlar med precist formulerade och djupa insikter.«¿¿Jesper Högström, Dagens Nyheter När konstnären Sandy Gr...

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" Smith har näsa för de mest skiftande av samtidens dofter, samtidigt som hon under hängiven språklek låter sina associationsbanor löpa kors och tvärs genom historien ." Therese Eriksson, SvD Andra delen i Ali Smiths årstidskvartett tar sig an vin...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet One day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university ac...

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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...

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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 a...

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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 ni...

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I know it in my ancient water, that something will happen today...Today is the 75th birthday of identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora. And on this day their story begins, a richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A masterful, exuberant novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Ali Smith ...

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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 ...

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A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this bestseller from the master of dystopia, J.G. Ballard.A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a hig...

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A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain ...

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WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE AWARD 'Joyous' The Times The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Am...

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A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent Indi...

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A sparkling satire from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting' Guardian 'There once was a ...

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A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'A glorious collection that celebrates and subvert...

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