30 Sep 2025

Book Critic: Putting Ali Smith in the spotlight

From Afternoons, 2:10 pm on 30 September 2025

Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist.
She's a pretty prolific writer, over the last ten years writing 14 novels, 5 short story collections and 8 plays. 

Book critic Pip Adam shares why she's a fan, reviewing the latest offerings but also the classics.

Gliff (Penguin, November 2024)

Glyph (Penguin, 17 February 2026)

Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith:
Autumn (2016), Winter (2017), Spring (2019), Summer (2020)

Ali Smith

Photo: Courtesy of New Statesman