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Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith´s novels are like nothing else.

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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

´Brims with palpable joy´ 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

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.

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith´s novels are like nothing else.

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Dizzyingly good and so clever that it makes you want to dance New Statesman

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Smith, Ali
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.

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