Series: Seasonal Quartet

Unmissable third instalment in the bestselling, critically adored, dazzling inventive novel cycle, the Seasonal Quartet. What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over...

The dazzling, unforgettable conclusion to Ali Smith's tour de force, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet. In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother, Robert, just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and...

Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the Seasonal cycle, following the Man Booker-shortlisted Autumn. Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths. It's December in Cornwall and Art's mother is...

The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn... Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I've read this year. — Olivia Laing, Observer Autumn 2016 — Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love...