In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom?

'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, INDEPENDENT

The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way.

Portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island.

Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. This book introduces five characters and traces their intersecting lives.

Muriel Spark's stunning debut novel

A collection of stories that unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday.

Features short stories of Katherine Mansfield that range from short studies to longer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss , The Garden Party and In a German Pension , and fifteen fragments of her other stories.

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 re-mix 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 and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and .

Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing history with personality in a sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.

The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting a

A collection of stories that explores the ways and whys of storytelling.

Panning in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer, this novel is about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, which is also an exploration of the nature of truth, and the role of fate.

Offers a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, and a child. This is a book featuring writers like Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood.

A collection of love stories for various moods and occasions.

The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution.

From one of Britain's young fiction writers comes this haunting novel - a seductive story of what it means to be alive at the edge of the 20th century.