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Ali Smith's 'Companion Piece' comes on the heels of her seasonal quartet of newsy novels. Her work is the perfect mirror of our era's abrupt absurdity.

Ali Smith's 'Companion Piece' comes on the heels of her seasonal quartet of newsy novels. Her work is the perfect mirror of our era's abrupt absurdity.

She won four leading prizes for her darkly comic novel O Caledonia and was revered by such writers as Ali Smith and Maggie O’Farrell

Journalist and author whose darkly funny 1991 novel O Caledonia has found its place as a Scottish classic

By exploring binaries such as imagination versus reality and surface versus depth — with their often blurred boundaries — Ali Smiths latest challenges readers to embrace the indeterminate.

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Ali Smith’s new novel, “Companion Piece,” is set in a pandemic-ravaged, post-Brexit Britain, with a perplexing choice at its center.

The Shakespeare critic and author on her new history of books and readers, and how it’s made her think about the contents of our shelves

Singer Will Young was among the guest speakers and authors as the Cambridge Literary Festival made a triumphant spring 2022 in-person return.

This year, the event which is being held from 29 September – 2 October 2022 is not likely to disappoint.