‘Autumn’ by Ali Smith (Review)
My adventures in library lends continue today with a visit to a rather unusual destination – my home country. You see, given my preference for fiction in translation, I don’t read a lot of novels from...
View Article‘Winter’ by Ali Smith (Review)
It’s starting to warm up here in Melbourne (in the high twenties today), but I know it’s getting gradually colder up in the northern hemisphere, with winter just around the corner. Of course, that...
View Article‘Spring’ by Ali Smith (Review)
Summer has just started down here in Melbourne, but in the fictional world of Scottish writer Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet, we haven’t quite got that far yet. Today sees me looking at the third of the...
View Article‘Summer’ by Ali Smith (Review)
It’s almost the end of another (reading) year, but before we say goodbye to 2023, I have one more review for you all, and it’s one that’s seasonally apt – well, for those of us down in the southern...
View Article‘Companion piece’ by Ali Smith (Review)
One of my little projects towards the end of 2023 was to read and review Scottish writer Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet, a series of four books featuring slices of life from post-Brexit Britain. It was...
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