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Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.

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 and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.

Glyph (a signifying mark – as in ‘hieroglyph’) is the second book of the interconnected pair that began with Gliff (a Scottish/northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse). Glyph will tell a story which is hidden in the Gliff so the two books will belong together but can be read independently.

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. Gliff – a Scots or Northern word for a glimpse, a shock, a glance - will not only tell its own story but also contain within it a hidden story, to be revealed only in a second novel, Glyph – from the Greek, meaning a mark, carving or symbol -- to be published a year later.

As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to. She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world—from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene.

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. 

Sophie Cleves er vor tids Ebenezer Scrooge. Sur og gammel bor hun i en kæmpe villa og er, som hendes søster Iris noterer sig, typen, der ikke har andet at servere til jul end valnødder og et halvt glas med glaserede kirsebær. Netop julen står for døren i hjemmet med de femten soveværelser, og sønnen Arthur kommer på besøg. Med sig har han den Shakespeare-elskende, kroatiske studerende Lux, som han har samlet op ved et busstoppested og betaler for at spille sin kæreste i helligdagene.

Why are books so powerful? What do the books we read make of us? And what does the vanishing of public libraries say about us? These stories are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us, how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once, how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.

En oktoberdag tager Richard, en desperat ældre filminstruktør, toget fra London til Kingussie. Der møder han Brit, en ung kvinde, der arbejde i et center for illegale migranter og flygtninge. Hun er rejst mod højlandet i selskab med en 12-årig pige. Pigen, der kalder sig Florence, nægter at sige, hvor hun kommer fra, og har en imponerende evne til at få det, hun vil have, og gøre sig usynlig for dem, der står i vejen for hende. "Forår" er en umulig fortælling om en umulig tid.

Februar 2020. Voldsomme brande hærger Australien, og man har opdaget en mystisk virus i Kina. I Brighton i Sydengland insisterer den sekstenårige Sacha på, at kloden har problemer. Hendes kværulerende og kyniske lillebror, Robert, er problemer. Moren og faren har problemer, og faren er flyttet sammen med sin unge kæreste i nabohuset. Imens er verden ved at bryde sammen - og det endelige sammenbrud er ikke engang begyndt. "Sommer" er en roman om store, gennemgribende forandringer.

How to Be Both is a novel all about art's versatility. 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. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.

Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish Writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe.

A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet. Individually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith's storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.

'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party....' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they first appear....

The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling.

A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet. A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche 14-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, we see a narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph.

Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to.... How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence? In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar.

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, haunting and disconcertingly moving, Like soars across hidden borders between cultures, countries, families, friends and lovers. Subtle and complex, it confounds expectations about fiction and truths.

Originally four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University, Artful is 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 character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. Full of both the poignancy and humour of fiction and all the sideways insights and jaunty angles you would expect from Ali Smith’s criticism

Det er et umage venskab, Daniel Gluck og Elisabeth Demand har. Daniel er 101 år gammel, og Elisabeth er 32. I fortællingens nutid, umiddelbart efter Brexit-afstemningen, møder Elisabeth trofast op på det plejehjem, hvor Daniel ligger og venter på at dø. For mange år siden, da de mødtes i 1993, advarede hendes mor hende om at pleje kontakt med den mærkelige nabo, der var flyttet ind over for dem. Men Elisabeth nægter at rette sig efter moderen, og ud af den insisteren på relationer mellem mennesker vokser et venskab, som forfatteren Ali Smith bruger som udgangspunkt for sin fortælling om England af i dag.