Palace of Mirrors will be released on February 09, 2010 in eBook
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Maggie Bean Stays Afloat is now available in eBook
Oct 27, 2009
Maggie Bean Stays Afloat will be released on October 27, 2009 in eBook
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Fake Boyfriend will be released on February 24, 2009 in eBook
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Dec 19, 2008
To Be Mona will be released on November 25, 2008 in Hardcover
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Something Happened will be released on November 04, 2008 in Trade Paperback
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Palace of Mirrors will be released on September 30, 2008 in Hardcover
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Entrances and Exits will be released on August 05, 2008 in Trade Paperback
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The Melting of Maggie Bean will be released on June 25, 2008 in eBook
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The Melting of Maggie Bean will be released on June 25, 2008 in eBook
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The Melting of Maggie Bean will be released on June 25, 2008 in eBook
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Lost It will be released on June 20, 2008 in eBook
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Lost It will be released on June 20, 2008 in eBook
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Lost It will be released on June 20, 2008 in eBook
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Baby Girl will be released on June 17, 2008 in eBook
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Baby Girl will be released on June 17, 2008 in eBook
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Maggie Bean Stays Afloat will be released on May 06, 2008 in Trade Paperback
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Leaving Dirty Jersey will be released on April 22, 2008 in Trade Paperback
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Show, Don't Tell will be released on April 22, 2008 in Trade Paperback
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Me, In Between will be released on March 25, 2008 in Trade Paperback
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Fake Boyfriend will be released on December 26, 2007 in Hardcover
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Leaving Dirty Jersey will be released on May 08, 2007 in Hardcover
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Ali Smith's Books
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To Be MonaIn To Be Mona, Sage wonders whether she can ever have a "normal" seventeen-year-old's life...Read More
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Maggie Bean Stays AfloatShe was no longer the boring girl who hid in her bedroom eating mounds of chocolate every night. She was the new and improved Maggie Bean, and she was...Read More -
Fake BoyfriendHe's absolutely perfect.If only he were real. Lane and Vivi have had it with Isabelle Hunter's boyfriend, Shawn Littig (a.k.a. Sluttig). He is the only...Read More
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Something Happened"All around me I see people laughing, joking, and walking around with these huge, goofy smiles plastered on their faces. I've begun to wonder how they...Read More
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Entrances and ExitsIt's time for the Fall One-Act Festival, and Hope gets the honored privilege of debuting her very first original play! With Bryan directing and Jason...Read More
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Palace of MirrorsMargaret Peterson Haddix's companion to Just Ella follows a princess-in-hiding and a pretender to the throne who discover nothing is as it appears.Read More
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The Melting of Maggie BeanMaggie looked down and barely saw her toenails peeking out from the shadow of her stomach. She closed her eyes and slowly stepped onto the scale. Once...Read More
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Leaving Dirty JerseyJames Salant's gritty memoir about shooting crystal meth, living as a criminal, and finally getting clean shines with authenticity.Read More
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Show, Don't TellEvery performanceneeds a little scandal and...Drama!The Renaissance Faire has come to town! Okay, so the exclamation point doesn't make it any cooler,...Read More
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Me, In BetweenLacey Underhill has what her Dutch grandmother refers to as luxe problemen: luxury problems. But Lacey's problems are very real and they are exactly...Read More
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My Father's DaughterPoor Little Rich BoyWinston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach, and a fancy private school. But with overprotective...Read More
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Everyone's a CriticSchool's out, but the drama never stops at the superposh Orion Academy. Hartley Blackstone -- the famous director, producer, choreographer, and genuine...Read More
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Disenchanted PrincessI may be in the middle of nowhere,but I still have standards!Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful...Read More
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The Four DorothysEvery performance needs a little scandal and . . .DRAMA!Spawned from Hollywood's A-list glitterati, nearly every student at the exclusive Orion Academy...Read More
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Psychic JunkieAs funny as it is endearing, Psychic Junkie is a tale of life, love, and looking for the answers to it all at $4.99/minute.Read More
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Meri Strikes BackMeri is back with a vengeance!When we last left our tale of deceit, blackmail, and really great shoes, our heroine Cindy Bixby had gotten rid of Meri...Read More
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National Post, November 14, 2009
...F. Moritz A.S. Byatt Aaron Costain Adam Sol After the Crash Alan Wolfe Alanna Mitchell Alastair Campbell Ali Smith All in the Mind All Other Nights Allan M. Brandt Allan Safarik Allen Barra American Rust Among the Mad Amphibian An Oresteia and the...
Observer, October 25, 2009
...decades and this book brings together work from her previous collections, Blood and Where You Find It. Like Ali Smith, whom she often recalls, her writing is as stylistically experimental as it is defiantly ordinary in setting. The familiarity of the...
The Independent, October 24, 2009
...its own again. Claire Keegan and Lorrie Moore have made their reputations on shorts alone; Alice Munro and Ali Smith have made it a highly regarded and popular form. The Asham Award is solely for short stories written by unpublished women: the names...
Press and Journal, October 5, 2009
...Highland-born novelist inspired by care given to father in months before he died Published: Ali Smith: award-winner An award-winning author has urged NHS Highland not to axe a 14-bed rehabilitation unit which prepares elderly patients to return home...
Irish World News, September 21, 2009
...shortlist this year include Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, veteran short story authors Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun and Sana Krasikov. To read our recent interview with Simon Van Booy, click HERE...
Irish World News, September 21, 2009
...shortlist this year include Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, veteran short story authors Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun and Sana Krasikov. http://beautiful-books.co.uk To read our recent interview with...
The Bookseller, September 20, 2009
...Turing Test, which was published by small press Elastic, beating collections by Booker Prize-winner Anne Enright, Whitbread winner Ali Smith 'and other literary lions'.Cheetham said: 'With all the imagination, zest and style of Chris's award-winning...
The Scotsman, September 14, 2009
...and the natives have grown unaccustomedly friendly, and for James Robertson's ultra-violent dystopia. It offers space for Ali Smith's sustained unpredictability and Jackie Kay's warm-hearted wit, and for the powerfully elegaic Scots of William...
Irish Times, September 11, 2009
...of music? and the power of persistence and of friendship. Claire Looby The First Person and Other Stories Ali Smith Penguin, £7.99 Ali Smith is well-known as a writer who delights in pushing boundaries, and her latest collection of short stories does...
Culture Critic, September 1, 2009
...of Human Rights, Amnesty International has gathered some of the leading lights of modern fiction Joyce Carol Oates, Ali Smith and A.L. Kennedy amongst them to pen short stories inspired by the declaration. Stimulate your imagination and your ethical...
Artdaily.org, August 28, 2009
...prize of £2,000. The judges for 2009 were critic and art historian James Elkins, novelist and critic Ali Smith, and co-editor of frieze magazine Jennifer Higgie. Smith described Lott's entry as 'clear, authoritative, inviting and encapsulating' and...
M2, August 27, 2009
...contributed by writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andrew Motion, James Meek, Kate Atkinson, Amit Chaudhuri, Alan Garner, Ali Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Henning Mankell, David Mitchell, Ariel Dorfman, Marina Lewycka and Paulo Coelho, according to...
Guardian Unlimited, August 27, 2009
...poem to Freedom, with other writers taking part include James Meek, Kate Atkinson, Amit Chaudhuri, Alan Garner and Ali Smith. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in a foreword for the book, writes that 'we are made for the sublime and for freedom: it is my hope...
Press and Journal, August 25, 2009
...new and unpublished writers will be combined in the magazine. The last edition was launched by renowned author Ali Smith, and included work by writers Douglas Dunn, Tom Bryan, Andrew Murray Scott, and Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Editor Rachel Marsh said:...
Cleveland Live, July 19, 2009
...songs of self. The writer spools out a fetching story, but he isn't as convincing as, say, Ali Smith in 'The Accidental,' in conjuring voices exotic to him. He indulges a few terrible puns; he stretches to render all his characters brilliant. The...
The Scotsman, July 17, 2009
...DEBUT NOVEL BY THE NEW York-born, now London-based, Aridjis comes highly recommended by literary heavyweights Paul Auster and Ali Smith, a choice emphasising both Aridjis's transatlantic appeal and her literary sensibilities. Such endorsements are an...
The Bookseller, July 12, 2009
...Gerard Donovan (Faber), The Atmospheric Railway by Shena Mackay (Cape) and The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton). Elastic Press closed in November 2008; although it is still selling backlist, it is no longer accepting...
Ormskirk and Skelmersdale Advertiser, July 10, 2009
...its tales of robots, alien planets, genetic manipulation and virtual reality over collections by Anne Enright, Shena Mackay, Ali Smith and Gerard Donovan. The prize is the UKs only award for a short story collection by a single author. Chris was...
Communitycare.co.uk, July 8, 2009
...Edge Hill Short Story Prizeafter beating off stiff competition from more established authors, such as the Booker shortlisted Ali Smith. Beckett, principal lecturer in social work at Anglia Ruskin University, was presented with a £5,000 cheque and a...
Guardian Unlimited, July 6, 2009
...over some of the country's best known literary authors, including Booker winner Anne Enright and Whitbread winner Ali Smith, to take the Edge Hill short story prize. Chris Beckett, who lectures at Anglia Ruskin university, was named winner of the £5,000...
Guardian Unlimited, July 6, 2009
...over some of the country's best known literary authors, including Booker winner Anne Enright and Whitbread winner Ali Smith, to take the Edge Hill short story prize. Chris Beckett, who lectures at Anglia Ruskin university, was named winner of the £5,000...
The Independent, July 4, 2009
...baroque' image of butterflies crushed on a road, is so weird that it can only be true. And Ali Smith demonstrates her stunningly eccentric mastery of the short-story form with wit and panache in 'Last'. Kamila Shamsie's 'The Desert Torso' evokes the...
Irish Times, July 3, 2009
...writers were picked from a long list that included major names such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun. The winner will be announced in Cork on September 20th at the 10th Frank OConnor International Short...
London Evening Standard, July 3, 2009
...on the part of the Royal Parks to commission eight top authors, including Will Self, William Boyd and Ali Smith, to create new short stories for each of its vital, verdant lungs. From Regent's Park to Richmond, and from Kensington to Greenwich, many of...
The Independent, July 2, 2009
...days why not pick up the whole set? The constellation of 37 writers extends from Mark Haddon to Ali Smith; John le Carr...
Guardian Unlimited, June 29, 2009
...the 57-strong longlist for the world's richest award for a collection of short stories include Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith and James Lasdun. The Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah said she had been 'going around with a rather demented grin on my face' ever...
Thelondonpaper, June 23, 2009
...sprawl on the grass with some very appropriate reading matter this summer: eight top writers, including Will Self, Ali Smith and William Boyd, have penned short stories inspired by London?s eight Royal Parks. You can pick up the £2 Park Stories...
Galway Independent, May 31, 2009
...He is up against stiff competition from Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche and Ali Smith, who are also on the long-list. Authors from Britain and America as well as Eastern Europe, India and Africa complete the list...
Observer, May 31, 2009
...home. She has perfected precisely the kind of regional writing that the Swedish Academy sneers at. Yet, as Ali Smith observed reviewing Runaway, her tenth collection: 'Munro's stories enact what can only be called a sort of magic. Reading them, you sense...
Guardian Unlimited, May 22, 2009
...for a book evoking 'the spirit of a place'. A big week for prizes also saw former winner Ali Smith presenting Faber's Julia Leigh with the 10,000 Encore award for a second novel, and the unveiling of the shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse...
The Bookseller, May 7, 2009
...and Faber securing two of the five-strong list. Man Booker-winner Anne Enright and Man Booker and Orange nominee Ali Smith are both among those listed. Blackwell co-sponsors the annual prize, which was launched by Edge Hill University three years ago and...
Guardian Unlimited, May 6, 2009
...up against Enright's Yesterday's Weather, the follow-up to her Booker-winning novel The Gathering. Shena Mackay and Ali Smith, who have both been shortlisted for the Booker and the Orange prizes, are also in the running for the £5,000 Edge Hill short...
The Scotsman, April 25, 2009
...only Englishman in the kitchen is the head chef, Gabe, the slowly unravelling protagonist of the book. Like Ali Smith's Hotel World, In The Kitchen hinges on a death in the hotel. A Ukrainian night porter's body is discovered in the kitchen basement...
The Times, April 17, 2009
...world: a place that takes you out of yourself, that feeds every one of the senses. The novelist Ali Smith is on her way to a meeting one foggy winter morning when she finds herself crossing the threshold into Regents Park; she wont tarry, she promises,...
Metro.co.uk, April 15, 2009
...PLAY Click thumbnails to view the videos ViewMetro TV AUTHOR CHATS Alain de Botton Anna Blundy Maggie Gee Ali Smith Tobias Hill Day Cloudmelancholic Monty Python Sturgess Twitter Baltimore Neil Young funnyman prose shines giggle Fiennes TROLIFE BLOGS...
Glasgow Herald via, April 2, 2009
...Scotland has proved itself a world leader, from John Barbour and William Dunbar in the middle ages to Ali Smith and James Kelman today. As a nation our imaginations have been fired by - and in many cases forged by - our writers, a fact of which we are...
Glasgow Herald, April 2, 2009
...Scotland has proved itself a world leader, from John Barbour and William Dunbar in the middle ages to Ali Smith and James Kelman today. As a nation our imaginations have been fired by - and in many cases forged by - our writers, a fact of which we are...
Toronto Star Online, March 14, 2009
...Chandler, J.D. Salinger, Albert Camus and Truman Capote. Today its roster includes Zadie Smith, Pat Barker and Ali Smith. In addition to publishing Canadian writers, including next year's debut novel by filmmaker David Cronenberg, Hamish Hamilton Canada...
Metro.co.uk, February 26, 2009
...that mixes intellectual rigour and raw emotion. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off selected by Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith and Sarah Wood (Penguin, £9.99) An invigorating compendium of literary lovers' tiffs, ranging from Dorothy Parker's quarrelsome newly-weds...
Guardian Unlimited, February 23, 2009
...we had a fantastic hit rate last year.' Irish/Trinidadian writer Amanda Smyth ? compared to Jean Rhys by Ali Smith ? has been selected for her first novel Black Rock, which tells the story of a Tobago girl who runs away to Trinidad to escape her...
Guardian Unlimited, February 17, 2009
...held many an exquisitely nuanced conversation strolling through them. Now a group of contemporary authors including Will Self, Ali Smith and William Boyd are set to sprinkle a little more literary stardust on London's eight royal parks with a series of...
Globe and Mail, February 13, 2009
...In her new collection, Ali Smith seems to have set out to demonstrate both the power (harmful and otherwise) of the imagination her own, especially and the versatility of the short-story form. The...
The Independent, February 13, 2009
...The question is can you work out who is who? Who wrote what? The novelists are: Adele Parks Ali Smith Bella Pollen Chris Manby Daisy Waugh Emma Darwin Esther Freud Fay Weldon Jane Moore Joan Smith Joanne Harris Justine Picardie Louise Doughty Rachel...
Toronto Star Online, February 8, 2009
...The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith Hamish Hamilton Canada, 207 pages, $30 and Other Stories by Ali Smith Hamish Hamilton Canada, 207 pages, $30 I 'The novel, he was saying, was a flabby old whore...
The Scotsman, January 31, 2009
...stories from Imogen Edwards-Jones, Jessica Adams, Kathy Lette and Maggie AldersonSphere, £7.99 WHEN 'your favourite women novelists' (Ali Smith, Fay Weldon, Joanne Harris et al) write 'unashamedly sexy stories', which come together under the covers of...
Telegraph, January 28, 2009
...had enough!' Published this week, In Bed With is a selection of 'sexy stories' by leading authors including Ali Smith, Esther Freud, Fay Weldon and Joanne Harris. It is also the first in a wave of forthcoming books some fiction, some not in which women...
Northeast Journal, January 24, 2009
...work and her own, joining fellow writers and admirers Naomi Alderman, Kasia Boddy, Lennie Goodings, Peter Reynolds and Ali Smith. 'We?re celebrating the woman and what she gave the world,' she says. 'She didn?t produce that much, as half the time she...
Toronto Star Online, January 18, 2009
...Margaret Atwood. Since then other instalments have trickled out, including David Grossman's take on the biblical Samson, Ali Smith's riff on Iphis, and Su Tong's meditations on the Great-Wall-weeping Meng Jiang. Now we have myth number nine, Michel...
The Scotsman, January 12, 2009
...spring from the fertile imaginations of some of Britain's finest women writers. Contributors to the book include Ali Smith, Joanne Harris, Esther Freud and Louise Doughty, each of whom have written under a pseudonym, which means at least part of the fun...
Centre Daily Times, January 8, 2009
...waste what one already possesses.' And: 'Reticence builds a fortress in the mind.' -'The Book Lover' by Ali Smith (Anchor, $15.95): Using memoir and excerpts from works by her favorite authors, Smith shares her lifelong delight of reading well-known and...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 3, 2009
...The Scottish writer Ali Smith, whose novels 'Hotel World' and 'The Accidental' were both short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, has arranged her fourth short-story collection as a kind of running argument between realism...
NOW: Toronto, December 25, 2008
...the music at book launches could be if more writers pick up on it. Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith (Vintage): smart variation on the myth of Iphis. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf): superb stories about middle-class Indian immigrants in America....
Metro.co.uk, December 4, 2008
...Ask a writer how they feel about being nominated for a major prize such as the Booker or the Orange and they'll say they're delighted. Not so , whose novel The Accidental (this month's Metro Book Club choice) was nominated for both and won the Whitbread...
M2, December 3, 2008
...literary skills. The other contenders on the shortlist included a poetry collection by Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader; Ali Smith's rewritten Iphis and Ianthe, Girl Meets Boy; and an essay collection by Andrew O'Hagan, The Atlantic Ocean. Saltire's GBP1,500...
Guardian Unlimited, December 1, 2008
...unanimous choice from a strong shortlist that included Mick Imlah's Forward prize-winning poetry collection The Lost Leader; Ali Smith's retelling of the myth of Iphis and Ianthe, Girl Meets Boy; and Andrew O'Hagan's essay collection, The Atlantic Ocean....
Band of Thebes, October 23, 2009
...Emma Donoghue is one of The Four, contemporary U.K. lesbian novelists, with Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith. In her novels she is equally at home in the present ( Stir-Fry, Hood ) and the 1700s ( Slammerkin, Life Mask ). Her novel...
Mad Bibliophile, October 19, 2009
...s Book by A.S. Byatt. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson The Accidental by Ali Smith The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold The Memory Room by Christopher Kock The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck...
Bart's Bookshelf, September 3, 2009
...is the best advice you have to give: Gold (Dan Rhodes) Thought for the day: Girl Meets Boy (Ali Smith) How I would like to die: How I Live Now (Meg Rosoff) My soul’s present condition: Stuck in Neutral (Terry Trueman) Tags: Meme...
Bart's Bookshelf, September 3, 2009
...is the best advice you have to give: Gold (Dan Rhodes) Thought for the day: Girl Meets Boy (Ali Smith) How I would like to die: How I Live Now (Meg Rosoff) My soul’s present condition: Stuck in Neutral (Terry Trueman) Tags: Meme...
Kate's Book Blog, August 29, 2009
...think!" Describe yourself: Lonely Werewolf Girl (Martin Millar). How do you feel: The First Person & Other Stories (Ali Smith). Describe where you currently live: Toronto Places (Mark Baraness). If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Betsy and The...
Me And My Big Mouth, August 25, 2009
...written anything unpleasant about me? YES GET RID Does the book have a quote on the front from Ali Smith, Salman Rushdie or Martin Amis? YES GET RID Is it written by Don DeLillo? YES GET RID This clearout lark is easier than I thought...
The Stale, Continued, June 9, 2009
...the ways it begs to. The edges are torn up, and the characters aren’t fleshed. “Erosion” by Ali Smith in The Whole Story and Other Stories (Anchor, 2004) Review: THREE STARS It’s not difficult reading women writers who have guts; it’s just...
dreaming out loud, May 31, 2009
...Boneslicer by Mel Odom ♥ Troll Bridge by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple ♥ Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith ♥ Diaspora by Greg Egan ♥ Horrible Geography: Freaky Peaks and Perishing Poles by Anita Ganeri ♥ Slan by A. E. Van Vogt...
The Western Writers Centre, May 25, 2009
...€ 35,000. Others on the list are Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche and Ali Smith. Authors from Britain and America as well as Eastern Europe, India and Africa complete the list of writers eligible for the...
Tales from the Reading Room, May 16, 2009
...Triffids – John Wyndham Love Stories The Other Side of You – Salley Vickers Girl Meets Boy – Ali Smith The Woman Who Waited – Andrei Makine The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger Intriguing People Molly Fox’s Birthday – Deirdre...
dreaming out loud, May 16, 2009
...probably read this too) - Troll Bridge by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple - Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith - Diaspora by Greg Egan - Horrible Geography: Freaky Peaks and Perishing Poles by Anita Ganeri - Slan by A. E. Van Vogt - Year's Best Fantasy &...
Page After Page, May 14, 2009
...Book: The Accidental by Ali Smith Pages: 306 Finished: May, 2009 Challenges: ** Spring Reading Thing ** Book Awards ** Read and Review ** Support Your Local Library ** New Authors First sentence: " My...
Torque Control, May 9, 2009
...Any shortlist that includes both Chris Beckett and Ali Smith is a good shortlist Similarly, good to see Swiftly on the list of Sidewise Award nominees (to be fair, I haven’t read, er, any of the other nominees...
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain blog, May 7, 2009
...of the Grand (Faber) Anne Enright, Yesterday’s Weather (Random House) Shena Mackay, The Atmospheric Railway (Random House) Ali Smith, The First Person and Other Stories (Hamish Hamilton) Some people have expressed surprise that Chris Beckett, a...
Feminist SF - The Blog!, April 28, 2009
...A Princess of Roumania , The Tourmaline , The White Tyger , The Hidden World Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a...
crooked house, April 8, 2009
...Ali Smith on her earliest reading experiences, from the introduction to The Book Lover , an anthology of some of her favourite pieces by other writers: I learned to read early...
Linda's Jottings, April 6, 2009
...out quotation marks altogether. [More:] So when I started reading The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith , and saw that she doesn’t use any type of quotation marks, I thought it was going to be hard going. But I quickly got used to her style...
PSFK, February 23, 2009
...city’s grandest green spaces by penning short stories that take place in them. Participating authors include Will Self , Ali Smith and William Boyd . In an effort to lend these location-based narratives even greater relevancy, the finished works -...
Asylum, February 11, 2009
...of the authors. While it’s true that most don’t require this - Fitzgerald, Marquez, Katherine Mansfield, Ali Smith even - I would have liked to be ‘reminded’ about Colette, and to know more (ie anything) about Yasunari Kawabata, whose story...
biblioklept, January 31, 2009
...Let’s start with a confession–I haven’t finished reading all of Ali Smith’s anthology The Book Lover yet. Like most collections I own, there’s a fair chance that I won’t read every story, essay, or poem collected here, but...
Book Crazy, January 19, 2009
...few random pages. Believe me, I have had something to think of every time. Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith : This was another random pick at the bookstore. The book was very beautifully designed and the description sounded too interesting to ignore. I had...
51stories, January 18, 2009
...also previous posts) but in between I’ve indulged in some great reading. First of all there is Ali Smith’s collection of short stories. I savour these stories, one at a time and they are excellent reads. Then I’ve read Hoffman’s Hunger by Leon...
Books in 140, January 6, 2009
...comes available. Google the title to find it. jodiwilldare Looking forward to the new short story collections by Ali Smith and Mary Gaitskill i_am_lisa This year, at least for the 1st 1/2, I’m going to be reading lots of YA books for class. The 2nd...
The Elegant Variation, January 6, 2009
...who recently assumed a Granta editorship, selections from the current issue - dedicated to Fathers, with contributions from Ali Smith, Will Self, and Joseph O'Neill - can be found online . * Cuba has begun allowing electronic access to more than 3,000...
Dance & Drink & Screw, December 31, 2008
...The Death of Achilles Tennessee Williams' Collected Stories [only 9 or 10 of them] Carol Shields' Mary Swann Ali Smith's Girl Meets boy Joyce Carol Oates' The Falls Têtu Plage été 2008 David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness,...
Valentina's room, December 31, 2008
...Adiga 53) Gold by Dan Rhodes 52) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 51) Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith 50) The Bloodstone Bird by Inbali Iserles 49) Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce 48) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 47) James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl...
My Life in Books, December 29, 2008
...expected to: Laika by Nick Abadzis. Best new addition to the Canongate Myths series: Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith. I love this series, but it is not completely consistent, and this one was just so joyous. It was also my first Ali Smith and I liked it...
51stories, December 28, 2008
...and I look forward to the next. Top ten - Fiction: Tim Winton: Breath Joseph O’Neill: Netherland Ali Smith: Girl meets Boy Maggie O’Farrell: After You’d Gone Nahid Rachlin: Persian Girls Michael Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita WG Sebald:...
Valentina's room, December 9, 2008
...books now and see if I can get back on track! The first is Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith Ok, I have to admit, after reading this and The Accidental, that Ali Smith is not for me. I enjoyed this more than the Accidental , probably because it was...
