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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. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation...

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

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...

He’s a Brit. She’s not impressed. And this app’s about to crash. Riley Hayes has one rule—no tech bros. After walking away from her cushy developer job in Seattle, she’s perfectly happy back in her hometown of Willow Cove, writing scathing editorials and avoiding men with VC-backed...

Drei Hexen. Ein unwiderstehlicher Wunsch.Ein Cozy-Fantasy-Krimi, in dem Sehnsucht tödlich wird.Der Frühling ist nach Winterset gekommen – und mit ihm die Wunder. Verlorene Ringe tauchen wieder auf, Schicksale wenden sich zum Guten, und gebrochene Herzen beginnen über Nacht zu heilen...

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...

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. 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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

Three witches. One haunted orchard. A cozy magical mystery where gratitude turns deadly. Maeven Foxglove, Ivy Calder, and Juno Merrin aren’t the sort of witches who go looking for trouble—but it keeps leaving offerings at their door. Life at The Hearth is all sarcasm, tea, and mild spellwork until the orchard on the hill starts whispering the names of the dead. When a haunting twists into something far darker, the coven must uncover who—or what—is turning gratitude into vengeance.

Three witches. One furious storm. A cozy magical mystery where emotion becomes elemental. Maeven Foxglove, Ivy Calder, and Juno Merrin have weathered curses, hauntings, and the occasional exploding kettle—but nothing like this. When a sentient storm starts screaming over Winterset and lightning strikes in rhythm with broken hearts, the coven is dragged into a mystery written in thunder. As tempers flare and the town’s emotions spiral out of control, the witches must uncover who—or what—is conducting the chaos before the skies bring the roof down for good.

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.