Companion Piece by Ali Smith

Companion Piece by Ali SmithA celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, spellbinding and shapeshifting forms It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer written and published in as close as possible to real time, between 2016 and 2020, absorbing and refracting the times we are living through: the 'state of the nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me,

Lucy Locket lives with her father

If you're still missing Maeve Binchy

blue and yellow

grief and memory

which was originally exclusively centered in the urban space

Now in his mid-eighties

But if all you expect to find in Sedaris's work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned

The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting

It is significant that it begins in 1900 and ends in 2000 - most accounts have begun in 1912 or 1922 and largely ignored the end of the century

This first book of jungle animals from the creator of Dear Zoo is sure to delight young children

one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics

Now she is slave to Achilles