Ali Smith, Costa Book Award (56 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE AWARD 'Joyous' The Times The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling. ***** 'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph 'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' Observer 'A beguiling page-turner . . . To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last' Independent. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014 WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance. ***** 'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'A delight. A masterpiece. Magical' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance. 'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Ali Smith schreibt wie sonst keine. In ihrem vielfach preisgekrönten Roman verbindet sie zwei Leben, die über fünfhundert Jahre auseinanderliegen: George, ein Mädchen von heute, das die Faszination der Beobachtung entdeckt, und den Werdegang eines Freskenkünstlers aus der italienischen Renaissance. Mit Witz, sprachlicher Brillanz und einer ansteckenden Freude am Spiel mit Formen, Zeiten, Wahrheiten und Fiktionen erzählt die britische Autorin vom Abenteuer der Kunst, vom Sehen und Gesehenwerden, vom Wunder, ein Mensch zu sein.

paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartetOne day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university acquaintance Martina Pelf. Martina is calling Sandy to ask for help with a mysterious question she's been left with after she's spent half a day locked in a room by border control officials for no reason she can fathom: 'Curlew or curfew You choose.'And what's any of this got to do with the story of a young and talented blacksmith hounded from her trade and her home more than five hundred years ago Ali Smith's novel takes wing, soaring between our atomised present and our medieval past in the hope we can open our locked down homes and selves to all the other times, other species, other histories, other possibilities.'[An] entertaining and expert portrayal of the world we live in, seen by the most beguiling and likeable of novelistic intelligences' Telegraph'[Companion Piece] makes you look at the world afresh. For me, it turned a cold and depressing day into a bright one' New StatesmanLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2022 240 pp. Englisch.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 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 about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of numerous novels and short story collections including Hotel World, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, The Accidental, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize and How to be Both which won the Baileys Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. In 2017, Autumn, the first book in the Seasonal Quartet, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Cambridge.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the 'Seasonal' quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the 'Seasonal' quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Condition: Nuevo. Solsona, Núria (illustrator). Arriba la tardor. L'Elisabeth observa els canvis en el seu entorn després d'un estiu que ho ha capgirat tot al seu país. Els governs deceben, les opinions es polaritzen, el temps passa No pot evitar que les relacions de les persones que l'envolten es transformin, igual que ho fan les estacions, però sempre queda lloc per a l'esperança. Tardor és el primer llibre del quartet estacional d'Ali Smith, una obra lluminosa que reinventa les formes clàssiques d'escriptura i de relacionar-se amb el nostre present a través de la literatura. Ali Smith és una de les escriptores més importants i provocadores en llengua anglesa, i ha guanyat premis tan prestigiosos com el Costa Book Award, el Folio Prize, el Baileys o el Goldsmith. Ha estat finalista quatre vegades del Man Booker Prize.

Condition: Nuevo. La primavera. En Richard plora la pèrdua de la seva amiga, la Paddy. Ella entenia el món molt millor que ell i ara no sap com s'ho farà sense ella. La Florence i la Brittany s'han trobat en les condicions més estranyes. Tots viatgen cap al nord, a la profunditat d'Esc.cia, on potser trobaran el bri verd més fi que començarà a trencar la roca. Després d'Hivern arriba Primavera, una primavera més fosca, més directa i més lluminosa. Una crítica a l'ésser humà, a les relacions entre ells i amb el món que habiten. Ali Smith és una de les escriptores més importants i provocadores en llengua anglesa i ha guanyat premis tan prestigiosos com el Costa Book Award, el Folio Prize, el Baileys o el Goldsmith. Recentment, ha rebut el Premi Llibreter amb el primer llibre del quartet estacional, Tardor.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Eine englische Familie macht Ferien in einem Sommerhaus in Norfolk. Der Vater Michael, ein Literaturprofessor, trifft sich wie gewohnt mit Studentinnen. Die Mutter Eve, eine erfolgreiche Autorin, versucht, ihre Schreibblockade zu überwinden. Die Kinder Magnus und Astrid leben in ihrer eigenen abgeschotteten Welt. Bis plötzlich Amber auftaucht, eine geheimnisvolle, charismatische Fremde, und das Leben dieser ganz normalen neurotischen Familie gehörig durcheinanderbringt.Ausgezeichnet mit dem Whitbread Award für den besten Roman.

Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Catalán. És l?hivern. Quatre persones, desconeguts i família, convergeixen en una casa de quinze habitacions a Cornwall per passar el Nadal, però sembla que no hi ha lloc per a tothom. Una immigrant aporta la llum i l?escalfor que la família no ha sabut trobar unificant passat i present. Així és l?hivern, les coses es tornen visibles quan recordem com endurir-nos per després tornar flexiblement a la vida. Després de Tardor, amb Hivern l?autora llança una mirada sàvia, divertida i contundent sobre l?era de la postveritat, la crisi de refugiats, la crisi climàtica, i les notícies falses. Ali Smith és una de les escriptores més importants i provocadores en llengua anglesa, i ha guanyat premis tan prestigiosos com el Costa Book Award, el Folio Prize, el Baileys o el Goldsmith. Ha estat finalista quatre vegades del Man Booker Prize. Finalista del British Book Award, del Llibre de l?any de Ficció i del Prize Orwell for Political Writing. LLIBRE DE L'ANY A: The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, The New York Times RESUM QUARTET PER CATÀLEG El quartet estacional, que comprèn Tardor, Hivern, Primavera i Estiu, ha rebut els elogis de la crítica per una obra que supera totes les expectatives. Sorprenent, lúcida i crítica, se la considera una de les escriptores més importants de les lletres britàniques. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.

Cartoné. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. 01. Dues històries d?amor i d?injustícia separades per 500 anys i lligades amb un fil invisible. Un artista italià del Renaixement i una adolescent filla d?una activista política connectaran gràcies a la vida, la veritat i el temps. . Com ser-ho alhora és una novella bella i inusual. Passat i present es confonen. L?art, l?activisme, la feminitat, la connexió emocional i el sexe són alguns dels elements que Ali Smith explora intensament, alhora que transmet la importància de l?art i la cultura en les nostres vides. . Un d?aquells llibres que ens obliga a mirar les coses de manera diferent i ens provoca pensaments i sentiments que romanen amb nosaltres durant molt de temps. . Perquè res no és només una cosa, sinó que som moltes coses alhora. . Presentem per primera vegada en català la multipremiada autora escocesa Ali Smith. Amb aquesta obra ha obtingut els premis Goldsmith 2014 i Costa Novel Award 2014, a més de ser finalista del Man Booker. LIBRO.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Ali Smith schreibt wie sonst keine. In ihrem preisgekrönten neuen Roman verbindet sie zwei Leben, die über fünfhundert Jahre auseinanderliegen: George, ein Mädchen von heute, das die Faszination der Beobachtung entdeckt, und den Werdegang eines Freskenkünstlers aus der italienischen Renaissance. Mit Witz, sprachlicher Brillanz und einer ansteckenden Freude am Spiel mit Formen, Zeiten, Wahrheiten und Fiktionen erzählt die britische Autorin vom Abenteuer der Kunst, vom Sehen und Gesehenwerden, vom Wunder, ein Mensch zu sein.»Beides sein« ist ein Roman über die Gegensätze von Mann und Frau, von Leben und Tod, von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart und über die Sehnsucht, diese Gegensätze zu vereinen, da sie erst vereint ein Ganzes bilden. »Beides sein«, das sind zwei Geschichten, die ein Ganzes bilden: Da ist die Geschichte von George, einem Mädchen von heute, das um seine ganz plötzlich verstorbene Mutter trauert. George hält ihre Erinnerungen fest, vor allem die Reise nach Italien, als sie mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem kleineren Bruder Henry den Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara besuchten, der mit Fresken ausgemalt ist. Der Künstler der schönsten Fresken in diesem »Palast gegen die Langeweile« aus dem 15. Jahrhundert war Francescho del Cossa. Diese Erinnerungen, die Entdeckung des Sehens und Beobachtens und eine Freundschaft bringen George langsam wieder ins Leben zurück.Und dann ist da das Leben von Francescho del Cossa, dem Renaissancekünstler, dessen Werdegang zum Hofmaler bei Borsa d'Este alles andere als einfach war und dessen ungewöhnliche Geschichte auf verblüffende, höchst vergnügliche Weise auf die des Mädchens George trifft .

Condition: New. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices Observer Spring is an astonishing accomplishm.

Condition: Very Good. Condition: Very Good | Language: English | Product Type: Books | Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the 'Seasonal' quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

First edition, first printing. Shortlisted for the 2014 MAN Booker Prize and winner of the Costa Novel Award. Winner of the Goldsmith's Prize. Shortlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize. Winner of the 2015 Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustjacket. The book is available in two versions - the same book but with the two parts in a different order. The two versions are headed by either an eye icon or a CCTV camera icon. This is the eye icon version. Fine in fine dustjacket.

First edition, first printing. Shortlisted for the 2014 MAN Booker Prize and winner of the Costa Novel Award. Shortlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize. Winner of the Goldsmith's Prize. Winner of the 2015 Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustjacket. The book is available in two versions - the same book but with the two parts in a different order. The two versions are headed by either an eye icon or a CCTV camera icon. This is the CCTV Camera icon version. Fine in fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Description : 1/1 UK This is a novel about art's versatility; a fast moving gender bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance painter of the 1460's and there's a child of a child of the 1960's. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless. Published in two versions, the order of part one (illustration of an eye) and part two (illustration of a CCTV camera) being switched around. This version begins with the artist in the 1460's. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2014 and Winner of the Costa novel award 2014. Cover photo is of Sylvie Vartan and Francoise Hardy by Jean-Marie Périer. Condition: Book and jacket in fine condition with no marks, tears or fading. Text is clean and bright. Size : 225mm x 140mm Signed by the author to the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. "First published 2005" statement and first printing code I to the copyright page. SIGNED by the CBE, FRSL, multi-award winning literary Scottish author to the title page. Smith's third novel earned the Costa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Orange Prize, and the Women's Prize. She has garnered four Man Booker Shortlists to date. A novel of a family who by accident of assumption, takes in a stranger that manipulates and changes each family member, leaving a wake of identity and relationship reality in her aftermath. Fine, square, tight and unread with white pages (unusual with white instead of tanned paper) in black linen boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, golden-yellow end-papers, black-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine, crisp dust jacket; original printed £14.99 price still intact to the front inner flap; Independent U.K. bookstore's printed certificate of signed authenticity band loosely wrapped around the dust jacket. Octavo; 306 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Ali Smith, Penguin Books Ltd. Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the 'Seasonal' cycle, following the Man Booker-shortlisted AutumnWinter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths.It's December in Cornwall and Art's mother is seeing things. Art has problems too. His girlfriend has left so he's paying Lux, a young immigrant he found on the street, to impersonate her - but Lux has no intention of sticking to the script. And Iris, Art's prodigal aunt, septuagenarian CND-er and black sheep of the family, is about to arrive with a car full of food and a throat full of protest songs. Four people, strangers and family, in a fifteen-bedroom house for Christmas - will there be enough room for everyone?Winter casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, art, love and memory, protest and survival.Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge. Paperback.

Paperback. Ali Smith, Penguin Books Ltd. The dazzling, unforgettable conclusion to Ali Smith's tour de force, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartetIn 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.Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge. Paperback.

Paperback. Ali Smith, Penguin Books Ltd. Unmissable third instalment in the bestselling, critically adored, dazzling inventive novel cycle, the Seasonal Quartet What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?Spring. The great connective.With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door.The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge. Paperback.