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Summer by Ali Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser.
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borro ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet
The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith's dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted, Seasonal Quartet. In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Ink
I was born in a trunk. It was during the matinee on Friday. I stopped the show. Arresting and wonderful, 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, tramplin ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo Len Rix (Translator); Ali Smith (Introduction by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, ca ...Show more
The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old ...Show more
The Reader by Ali Smith
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, a child. This is a book full of pieces from wonderful writers - Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood. But it is also full of lesser known writers about which ...Show more
Winter by Ali Smith
$34.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both A Book of the Year according to: the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Evening Standard, The Times. 'Daz ...Show more
Winter by Ali Smith
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Seasonal Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths.It's December in Cornwall and Art's mother is seeing things. Art has problems too. His girlfriend has left so he's payi ...Show more