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Ali Smith

June 2024

  • Summer reading 2024

    Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more

    Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer

February 2024

  • A black and white shot of Ali in her early 20s in her messy bedroom, surrounded by clothes, posters and photos

    The Guardian picture essay
    Ali Smith’s 90s New York punk scene – photo essay

    Photographer and musician Ali Smith’s photographs and memories take us on a tour through downtown Manhattan’s punk scene in the 1990s, as she takes in gigs in Speedball Baby, shows in abandoned buildings, and legendary club CBGB

August 2023

  • Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Baillie Gifford prize winner Katherine Rundell.

    Authors threaten boycott of Edinburgh book festival over sponsors’ fossil fuel links

    An open letter signed by more than 50 authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell calls for investment firm Baillie Gifford to be dropped as main sponsor for 2024

April 2023

  • Clockwise from left: Joe Brainard, Violet LeDuc, Neil Bartlett, Quentin Crisp.

    The new LGBTQ+ lit list, chosen by writers

    From sensational memoirs to sublime poetry, Douglas Stuart, Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín and others share lesser-known books about queer life that deserve to be classics

March 2023

  • Ali Smith

    On my radar
    On my radar: Ali Smith’s cultural highlights

    The award-winning Scottish author on a brilliant exhibition in Paris, a talismanic collection of new poetry and an apocalyptic novel like no other

August 2022

  • Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Sahira Nair and Tabu in the 2006 film of The Namesake.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about dual identity

    Writers from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Ali Smith depict the delicate balancing acts required to reconcile different heritages

July 2022

  • Guy Gunaratne will join Ali Smith and Jackie Kay as judges.

    Rathbones Folio prize ‘refreshing format’ to expand to three categories

  • Illustration by Neil Webb.

    Summer reading: the 30 best holiday reads – chosen by authors and critics

June 2022

  • Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín, Bernardine Evaristo, Pankaj Mishra, Hilary Mantel and Ian Rankin

    Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites

    Authors recommend their favourite recent reads, from addictive novels and fascinating cultural history to a game-changing graphic memoir

April 2022

  • Bernardine Evaristo, Marina Lewycka and Jasper Fforde.

    Waterstones launches scheme to raise £1m for Ukraine

    Bernardine Evaristo and Jasper Fforde are among the authors whose books will be sold to raise money for Oxfam’s appeal

March 2022

  • Ali Smith

    Book of the day
    Companion Piece by Ali Smith review – a lockdown story of wayward genius

  • Ali Smith, photographed at her home in Cambridge. Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Photographed shortly before her new book "Spring" was to be released.

    Companion Piece by Ali Smith review – scintillating tales across the centuries

January 2022

  • Captive Andromache by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths

    From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction

November 2021

  • Windows on the worlds … Ruth Medjber’s night-time portraits were taken across Ireland during lockdown.

    Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them?

    Ali Smith, Sally Rooney, Roddy Doyle … is there anything can we learn from the first Covid-19 books?

October 2021

  • Ladder up stack of books<br>Tall white ladder leaning on 10 vintage books on wooden table, blue background

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcast

  • Ladder up stack of booksTall white ladder leaning on 10 vintage books on wooden table, blue background

    The long read
    Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals

June 2021

  • Ali Smith, Photographed in her garden in Cambridge. Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Ali Smith is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, and Summer as well as Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018.

    Ali Smith wins Orwell prize for novel taking in Covid-19 and Brexit

    Summer, written at speed last year, takes political fiction award while Joshua Yaffa’s Between Two Fires takes matching nonfiction honour

May 2021

  • Review cover image 28th May 2021 Books in a pile with stickies making a smile

    Dreaming of a better future? Ali Smith, Malcolm Gladwell and more on books to inspire change

    As our thoughts turn to life after the pandemic, authors from this year’s Hay festival choose books that have inspired lasting change in them
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    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Richard Osman, International Booker nominees and more

    Here are some outstanding new paperbacks for May, including Osman’s bestselling crime caper, Adam Buxton’s memoir and a fascinating study of eels
  • Ali Smith, Photographed in her garden in Cambridge. Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Ali Smith is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, and Summer as well as Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018.

    Books interview
    Ali Smith: ‘Hope is a tightrope across a ravine’

    The celebrated author talks about writing to the calendar, our new Dickensian age, and how she once imagined she’d become a refuse collector
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