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Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born August 1962 in Inverness) is a Scottish writer. She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that she never finished. She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with CFS/ME. Following this she became a full-time writer and now writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman, and the Times Literary Supplement. Openly gay, she lives in Cambridge with her partner filmmaker Sarah Wood. In 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature In 2009, she donated the short story Last (previously published in the Manchester Review Online) to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Fire' collection. Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to literature. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Companion Piece

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Natalie Simpson

Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Release date: 07-04-22

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
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Artful

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Release date: 02-05-13

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
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The First Person and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond

Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins

Release date: 11-02-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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Winter

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Melody Grove

Series: Seasonal Quartet, Book 2

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Release date: 02-11-17

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
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Summer

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Juliette Burton

Series: Seasonal Quartet, Book 4

Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins

Release date: 06-08-20

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
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Seasonal Quartet, Book 3

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Juliette Burton

Series: Seasonal Quartet, Book 3

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Release date: 28-03-19

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
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There but for The

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 9 hrs and 1 min

Release date: 11-02-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Katie Leung

Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Release date: 11-02-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
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The Accidental

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Amaka Okafor, Sheila Atim

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Release date: 11-02-21

Language: English

3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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Hotel World

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Katie Leung, Siobhan Redmond, Kristin Atherton, Lois Chimimba, Sheila Reid, Roy McMillan

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Release date: 11-02-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
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Gliff

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Eliot Sumner

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Release date: 31-10-24

Language: English

3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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Furies

Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

By: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, CN Lester, Claire Kohda, various authors

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, Katie Leung, full cast

Length: 8 hrs

Release date: 08-03-23

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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Girl Meets Boy

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Marli Siu

Series: Canons

Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 01-04-21

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ten Kafkaesque Stories

By: Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Becca Rothfeld - introduction, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen

Narrated by: Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo, Penelope Rawlins, Matt Reeves

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Release date: 30-05-24

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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The Story of Antigone

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 1 hr and 6 mins

Release date: 04-09-14

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
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Other Stories and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Lois Chimimba

Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins

Release date: 11-02-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Glyph

By: Ali Smith

Length: Not Yet Known

Release date: 04-09-25

Language: English

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Free Love

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins

Release date: 03-11-22

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins

Release date: 09-12-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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The Whole Story and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Release date: 11-02-21

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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