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The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall. Thus begins Ali Smith's retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury her dishonoured brother Polynices, against King Creon's express orders, with heart-breaking consequences.

'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist ______________________________ A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers...

Brought to you by Penguin. SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017 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. Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on...

Drei Hexen. Ein wütender Sturm. Ein gemütlicher magischer Krimi, in dem Gefühle zu Naturgewalten werden. Maeven Foxglove, Ivy Calder und Juno Merrin haben bereits Flüche, Spukerscheinungen und gelegentlich explodierende Teekessel überstanden–aber nichts wie das hier. Als ein empfindungsfähiger Sturm über Winterset zu schreien beginnt und Blitze im Takt gebrochener Herzen einschlagen, wird der Zirkel in ein Geheimnis hineingezogen, das im Donner geschrieben steht.

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

Brought to you by Penguin. The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet 'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.' Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the...

Three witches. One perfect retreat. A cozy magical mystery where peace of mind is the price of admission. When exhaustion finally catches up with The Hearth, a winter invitation to the Hallowmere Institute for Magical Wellness sounds too good to refuse —spa treatments, hot springs, and absolutely no haunting allowed. But the snow-capped sanctuary hides more than scented candles. Guests forget their names, memories melt away, and serenity starts to look suspiciously compulsory. Maeven wants logic. Ivy wants rest. Juno wants a bigger dessert buffet.

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love...

From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark. Ghosts don’t exist. They don’t. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a...

Drei Hexen. Ein verfluchter Obstgarten. Ein gemütlicher magischer Krimi, in dem Dankbarkeit tödlich wird. Maeven Foxglove, Ivy Calder und Juno Merrin gehören nicht zu den Hexen, die nach Ärger suchen—aber irgendwie steht er ständig mit einem Opfergeschenk vor ihrer Tür. Im The Hearth dreht sich das Leben normalerweise um Sarkasmus, Tee und ein wenig harmlose Zauberei… bis der Obstgarten auf dem Hügel beginnt, die Namen der Toten zu flüstern. Als aus einer Spukerscheinung etwas weitaus Dunkleres wird, muss der Zirkel herausfinden, wer—oder was—Dankbarkeit in Rache verwandelt.

Band 2 des sensationellen Nummer-1-Bestseller-Quartetts aus Großbritannien: Das fulminante Meisterwerk von Booker-Prize-Finalistin Ali Smith. Winter – die kürzesten Tage, die längsten Nächte. Eine Jahreszeit, die uns das Überleben lehrt. Vier Leute, Fremde und Familie, verbringen Weihnachten in einem riesigen Haus in Cornwall, und doch stellt sich die Frage, ob jeder genug Platz findet.

Wenn Liebe auf Ehrgeiz trifft, sprühen die Funken. Rachel Holmes ist eine erfolgreiche PR-Managerin, die ganz auf ihre Karriere fokussiert ist. Ihr Leben dreht sich nur darum, den nächsten großen Deal an Land zu ziehen.

From the acclaimed, award-winning 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 unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali...

Two overworked doctors. One stolen coffee break at a time. Lily Harper has her life under control—structured routines, surgical precision, and absolutely no room for distractions. Especially not Noah Carter, the reckless, annoyingly charming ER doctor who thrives on chaos and seems determined to push her buttons. But when late-night shifts force them into each other’s orbit, their rivalry turns into something far more dangerous—midnight conversations, lingering glances, and a chemistry neither of them can ignore.

Brought to you by Penguin. 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. In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble...

Der sensationelle Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Großbritannien: Das fulminante Meisterwerk von Booker-Prize-Finalistin Ali Smith. England im Herbst 2016: Das Land hat einen historischen Sommer hinter sich, die Nation ist tief gespalten, und Angst macht sich breit. Mitten in dieser Zeit des Umbruchs besucht die junge Kunsthistorikerin Elisabeth einen alten Weggefährten im Heim. Daniel ist ein Jahrhundert alt. Er war einst ihr Nachbar und hat ihr als Kind die Welt der Fantasie eröffnet.

Grief. Guilt. Gardening. And one very inconvenient crush. She came back to fix her life. She didn’t expect to inherit half a garden centre—and a love triangle. Jess Bennett thought she'd left small-town Ashcombe behind for good. But when her London life goes up in flames, she returns home to sort out her mum’s affairs… and discovers she’s now co-owner of Fletcher’s Garden Centre. Unfortunately, the other owner is Callum Fletcher—grumpy, buttoned-up, and inconveniently handsome. Even worse? His younger brother Jamie just joined the team, bringing charm, chaos, and smoothie-related flirtation.

Brought to you by Penguin. Ghosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all...

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death *Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European* Franz...

I 1500-tallets England strejfer en forældreløs pige rundt. Det er mørke tider: epidemier raser, brutalitet og barbari råder. Pigen kommer i lære hos en kvindelig smed, og det er netop smedekunsten og et uventet venskab, der holder hende oppe. Femhundrede år senere har en ny epidemi ramt England og verden. Sandy Gray, en billedkunstner midt i livet, frygter at smitte sin skrøbelige far, der er indlagt efter et slagtilfælde. Derfor vil hun heller ikke se nogen mennesker, hun har i det hele taget besluttet sig for at melde sig ud af samfundet.