Ali Smith

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 re-mix 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, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.

Girl Meets Boy

Companion Piece

In de week na de Brexit herinnert de 32-jarige Elisabeth zich de innige band die ze vanaf haar zesde had met haar kunstminnende vroegere buurman, nu 101 en woonachtig in een verzorgingstehuis.

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Daniel tem a idade de um século. Elisabeth, nascida em 1984, está de olho no futuro. O Reino Unido e a Europa estão despedaçados, divididos por um verão histórico. Ganha-se amor, perde-se amor. A esperança caminha de mãos dadas com o desespero. As estações sucedem-se, como sempre, assim como as perguntas: Qual é o nosso valor? Quem somos? De que matéria somos feitos? Eis o lugar em que vivemos. Eis o tempo na sua forma mais contemporânea e naquilo que tem de mais cíclico. Eis uma história sobre o envelhecer e o tempo e o amor e as próprias histórias. Este é o primeiro livro do quarteto. Da imaginação única de Ali Smith nasce uma tetralogia feita a partir da ideia de transição, abrangente na sua escala temporal e marcada por um caminhar leve através das suas narrativas. Eis o Outono.

Outono

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017 From the 2015 Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both: An unconventional love story playing across the boundaries of time and history. . . The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art—via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery—Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means. Autumn is part of the quartet Seasonal: four stand-alone novels, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.

Autumn

Inverno

Como ser uma e outra

الشتاء

فندق العالم

A Novel

Like

Tânia Ganho

A acidental

Gezelschap

Sarah Neely

Margaret Tait

Drawing upon a pioneering filmmaker’s poetry collections, short stories, magazine articles, and unpublished notebooks, this collection contains the full range of Margaret Tait’s writing. As it discusses Tait as filmmaker and writer in the context of mid-20th-century Scottish culture, this account offers valuable insights into her writing processes and how these might have translated into her film work. With poetry that is generous and independent in its vision of the world, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the crossovers between literature and film.

Poems, Stories and Writings

Marina Warner

Sarah Pickstone

A collection of paintings, essays and short stories about the writers and artists who found inspiration in Regent's Park and London's other natural spaces.

Writing and Painting from the Heart of London

Park Notes

The brilliantly inventive novelist Ali Smith melds fiction and essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of story in our lives.

Artful

Kiș

كيف تكون كليهما

'Is there any better gift for a writer than the chance to put a book together of writing by others that she or he has loved? Is there any truer gift to a reader from any writer?' Ali Smith 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. A book full of pieces from wonderful writers - Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood. But also full of lesser known writers about which readers will be very happy to hear, like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper reputation status now, Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian genius who's far too underpublished here, like Leonora Carrington, the socialite who ran away to be a surrealist, and Armando, the artist whose writings are beautiful and lucid. Full of pieces by brand new wonderful writers; full of surprises, like how good Lee Miller was at journalism, how beautifully Dilys Powell writes about Greece. Full of unexpected things - turning the page to find the lyric of 'It's only a Paper Moon', or Beryl the Peril, or The Little House on the Prairie. Throughout, each piece is edited so as to read discretely, and arranged into a book which will reveal more about the writer who's edited it than a hundred press interviews ever would. This book is a classic about the sheer love of reading that every real reader knows.

The Reader

Frühling, die Kraft, die verbindet und wandelt: Was verbindet einen unbekannten Regisseur, der um verlorene Zeiten trauert, und die Angestellte eines Flüchtlingszentrums, die in modernen Zeiten gefangen ist? Was haben Katherine Mansfield und Rainer Maria Rilke mit Twitter und Fake News zu tun? Und warum schafft es ein 12-jähriges Mädchen, verkrustete Strukturen zu sprengen und allen die Augen zu öffnen? Ali Smith erzählt die unmögliche Geschichte einer unmöglichen Zeit und stößt in einer Welt, die zunehmend von Mauern und Schließungen geprägt ist, eine Tür auf. Frühling, die Zeit der Hoffnung.

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