Results for 'ali smith'

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  1. Summer
    1. Ali , Smith

    Summer

    WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. 'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' GuardianIn 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 borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common? Summer. Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.*****'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force' Evening Standard'Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon 'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' Irish Times

    € 13,50
  2. Concrete Ties II
    1. Alina Smith

    Concrete Ties II

    € 19,95
  3. Exhibition
    1. Alex Hyde

    Exhibition

    Sharp, vivid, compelling: a love letter to the last identifiable scene in British Art that captures the energy, grit and luxury and hunger of 90s London

    € 20,95
  4. Toxic
    1. Helga Flatland

    Toxic

    The simmering Norwegian sensation, from the bestselling author of A Modern Family

    Shamed schoolteacher, Mathilde, moves to a dairy farm in the Norwegian countryside for an ‘easier life’, but she’s soon up to her old tricks … upending and unsettling the lives of two reclusive farmers.  Exquisitely written, razor-sharp and simmering with an unexpected tension, Toxic marks the return of one of Norway’s finest writers…

    € 13,95
  5. Notes on a Scandal
    1. Zoë Heller

    Notes on a Scandal

    Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive

    € 13,95
  6. Big Sky
    1. Kate Atkinson

    Big Sky

    The main plot...is dark and disturbing, but Atkinson brings wry comic touches to the story as she both playfully inhabits and deftly subverts the crime genre.

    € 13,95
  7. Aliens, Smith and Jones
    1. Blaine D Arden

    Aliens, Smith and Jones

    € 16,50
  8. The True Deceiver
    1. Tove Jansson

    The True Deceiver

    € 18,50
  9. The Holy Assassin
    1. Luis Miguel Rocha

    The Holy Assassin

    Deep in the Vatican's inner sanctum lies a dark and terrifying secret, a secret that has been concealed for decades, and one that its keepers will stop at nothing to protect. In 1978 Pope John Paul I dies in mysterious circumstances. His successor, John Paul II, emerges from the conclave unaware that he is in mortal danger.

    € 24,95
  10. The White Tiger
    1. Aravind , Adiga

    The White Tiger

    Meet Balram Halwal, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story...Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape of breaking away from the banks Mother Ganga, into whose murky depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. His big chance comes when a rich village landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, daughter-in-law, and their two Pomeranian dogs. From behind the wheel of a Honda, Balram first sees Delhi. The city is a revelation. Amid the cockroaches and call-centres, the 36,000,004 gods, the slums, the shopping malls and the crippling traffic jams, Balram's re-education begins. Caught between his instinct to be a loyal son and servant, and his desire to better himself, he learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. As the other servants flick through the pages of Murder Weekly, Balram begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top? THE WHITE TIGER is a take of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

    € 10,50
  11. Notes on a Scandal
    1. Zoë , Heller

    Notes on a Scandal

    Heller's two novels are reissued with new jackets, alongside her new paperback, "The Believers".

    € 13,00
  12. A Cruel Madness
    1. Colin , Thubron

    A Cruel Madness

    When a part-time worker in a mental hospital meets his old girlfriend inside he is not sure at first is she is a patient. Their reunion is haunted and haunting and from the memory of their past affair there unfolds a labyrinth which darkens from romantic obsession to feelings deeper and more disturbing. Colin Thubron creates a world of passion delusion and reality mingling with unreality pervaded by an all-consuming sense of longing and of loss.

    € 18,80