How To Be BothHow to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires

Despite his protestations of innocence

tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck

and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse

Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular activities they will never forget

A brilliant and rather transgressive collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies

Fandorin is put on the case to find out what drove him to it

and no beast may look upon the queen and live

and possibly the outcome of Waterloo

The extraordinary third novel from Chris Cleave

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