by NRB | 6 Jun 2019 | Fiction |
Ali Smith’s latest novel is erudite, political, and full of riches. This is the third novel in Ali Smith’s sequence based on the seasons: Autumn, Winter, and now Spring. It is much darker than the first two novels, and although one could perhaps assume...
by NRB | 20 Dec 2018 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
From fiction to crime to history, essays, memoir and literary letters, the NRB editors choose ten of the reviews we published in 2018 of books we think deserve to go on your TBR pile. Jean’s picks: Ali Smith Winter The first of Ali Smith’s...
by NRB | 5 Jul 2018 | Fiction |
Time and its ramifications of past and present and even a small look at the future are perhaps the main themes of Winter, with plenty of fun, wordplay and space in between. Ali Smith has planned a suite of novels based on the seasons. The first of these, Autumn, was...
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