Audiobooks by Ali Smith

"Brought to you by Penguin. Ghosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister. In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world. A standalone novel, it’s family to Gliff (2024). ©2025 Ali Smith (P)2025 Penguin Audio"

Ali Smith (Author), Lesley Sharp (Narrator)

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Autumn: SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

"Brought to you by Penguin. SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . . ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting' The Times 'Bold and brilliant' Observer 'Terrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul' Daily Mail © Ali Smith 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Ali Smith (Author), Adjoa Andoh (Narrator)

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Winter: The incredible, life-affirming novel from the award-winning author

"Brought to you by Penguin. A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It's the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter. 'Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' Daily Telegraph 'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope' Independent 'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' Observer © Ali Smith 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Ali Smith (Author), Adjoa Andoh (Narrator)

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Spring: 'A dazzling hymn to hope’ Observer

"Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, 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 time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal. LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2019 'Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices' Observer 'An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons' Independent 'State-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us' New Statesman 'Smith tells stories in a voice you can't help but listen to' The Times © Ali Smith 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Ali Smith (Author), Adjoa Andoh (Narrator)

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Gliff: From the award-winning author of the groundbreaking Seasonal Quartet

"Brought to you by Penguin. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world. What would that actually be like? In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take? And what’s a horse got to do with any of this? Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature. ©2025 Ali Smith (P)2025 Penguin Audio"

Ali Smith (Author), Eliot Sumner (Narrator)

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The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir

"A Stylist Magazine (UK) pick for Best New Nonfiction A That Eric Alper pick for My Next Reads The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith’s coming-of-age in ’90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply. As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to. She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world—from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene full of addiction, violence, and misogyny—all while keeping her sharp wit and dark humor intact. Rimmed with heavy black eyeliner and smelling faintly of cheap booze, The Ballad of Speedball Baby is a pulse-quickening, unpredictable ride through the ’90s music scene—alternately terrifying, hilarious, and painfully evocative—as well as a love letter to the power of female solidarity."

Ali Smith (Author), Ali Smith (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Chica conoce chico

"La historia universal reúne doce historias que recorren un año completo. Ali Smith es una de las mejores escritoras del Reino Unido. Este libro, en el que nos encontramos con algunos de sus mejores textos, contiene doce cuentos en los que el amor, la tristeza y, muy especialmente, los libros y los libreros son los protagonistas. Doce cuentos que recorren un año completo, comenzando en febrero, el mes en que transcurre el primero, «La historia universal», y terminando en enero, con el relato «El principio de las cosas». En algunos cuentos se menciona el mes específicamente, en otros solo se hace una referencia a la estación. Las estaciones son una imagen recurrente en los cuentos, como también lo son los libros y las plantas, sobre todo, los árboles. Historias únicas que se entrelazan en un laberinto de coincidencias, oportunidades, conexiones perdidas y reencontradas."

Ali Smith (Author), Karen Basurto (Narrator)

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Free Love

"Brought to you by Penguin. A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently. © Ali Smith 1995 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Ali Smith (Author), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator)

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Let Your Light Shine: How Mindfulness Can Empower Children and Rebuild Communities

"This story of three men's work helping traumatized kids in one of America's most underserved cities reveals how mindfulness tools can help children and communities not only survive but thrive In this inspiring book, founders of The Holistic Life Foundation Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez describe how they have spent the past twenty years teaching yoga, meditation, and breathwork to thousands of at-risk kids in Baltimore schools helping them to develop deep reserves of patience, empathy, resolve, and-when needed-the righteous anger that fuels deep structural change. Their work has received wide national attention due to their remarkable results: The schools that have participated in their programs have seen suspension rates plummet and graduation rates go through the roof. Ali and Atman discovered as young children the power of mindfulness practices to sustain them through the challenges of growing up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was struggling with poverty and violence-a community they now serve. The Holistic Life Foundation's mission is to empower kids to find this same stillness and light within themselves and to let it shine out to help change the world. In this book, Ali, Atman and Andres share hands-on mindfulness and meditation tools readers can teach kids that will empower them to do this same work in their own communities. Let Your Light Shine is essential reading for parents, educators, activists, and anyone looking to make a difference in the lives of young people. "

Ali Smith, Andres Gonzalez, Atman Smith (Author), Ali Smith, Andres Gonzalez, Atman Smith, Sean Pratt (Narrator)

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Companion piece: The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of How to be both

"Brought to you by Penguin. The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet 'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.' Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future? Following her astonishing quartet of Seasonal novels, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its forms. 'Every hello, like every voice, holds its story ready, waiting.' © Ali Smith 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Ali Smith (Author), Natalie Simpson (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Primavera: Otras Latitudes

"'Ahora no queremos Información. Lo que queremos es desconcierto. Lo que queremos es repetición. Lo que queremos es repetición. […] Queremos que aquellos a quienes llamamos extranjeros se sientan extranjeros necesitamos que les quede claro que no pueden tener derechos a menos que nosotros lo digamos'. ¿Qué une a Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, el Brexit, el presente, el pasado, un hombre de luto por los tiempos perdidos, una mujer atrapada en los tiempos modernos? La respuesta está en Primavera, una novela luminosa, generosa y llena de esperanza, en la que, al igual que en Otoño e Invierno, la autora escocesa está haciendo algo más que analizar las injusticias de nuestra época: nos ilumina el camino para salir de la pesadilla. En esta tercera entrega de su Cuarteto estacional, Ali Smith nos muestra de nuevo por qué es una de las mejores escritoras del momento."

Ali Smith (Author), Adrianna Sananes (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Verano: Otras Latitudes

"La cuarta novela del Cuarteto estacional del finalista del Premio Man Booker, Ali Smith, es 'un poema en prosa en alabanza de la memoria, el perdón, la broma y aprovechar el momento' (The New York Times) En el presente, Sacha sabe que el mundo está en problemas. Su hermano Robert sólo es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el mundo está en crisis, y la verdadera debacle ni siquiera ha comenzado todavía. En el pasado, un verano encantador. Un hermano y una hermana diferentes saben que están viviendo en el tiempo prestado. Esta es una historia sobre personas al borde del cambio. Son familia, pero piensan que son extraños. Entonces: ¿Dónde comienza la familia? ¿Y qué tienen en común las personas"

Ali Smith (Author), Adrianna Sananes (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Ali Smith

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