Summer —Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

"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 t...

Spring —Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

Winter —Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

"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 Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, ...

Autumn —Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

"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...

Public library and other stories —Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

The stories in Ali Smith's new collection, The Library and Other Stories, are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us, friends for life; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, b...

Genius and ink : Virginia Woolf on how to read —Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author.

In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virgin...

Girl meets boy —Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

Public library and other stories —Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say ...