Autor Ali Smith

Jeseň je prvý zo štyroch románov s názvami podľa ročných období. V knihe sa prelínajú príbehy umierajúceho 101- ročného starca Daniela Glucka a mladej ženy Elisabeth Demand. Postupne, cez viaceré spomienky zisťujeme,...

Britská autorka Ali Smithová se českému čtenáři představila poprvé v roce 2005 výborem Jiné povídky a jiné povídky. V próze Hotel svět přivádí svůj osobitý styl poutající nápaditostí, poetičností, vtipem i hloubkou k ještě vybroušenější dokonalosti.

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...

What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring...

Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future...

'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 cons

Adapted from four lectures given at Oxford University by Ali Smith, author of bestselling The Accidental, 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'...

Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity...

'My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the cafe 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 not a littl

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...

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 ...

How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. Winner of the GoldSmiths Prize 2014 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Winner of the 2014 Costa Novel Award Winner of the Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year ...