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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 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. 'Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices' Observer 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. Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now. ***** 'An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons' Independent 'Smith is a masterful storyteller . . . Savour it' Evening Standard 'Infectious in its energy and warmth' Daily Telegraph

Oxford don and part-time detective Gervase Fen is in the town of Tolnbridge where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. Tracking down the culprit pleases Fen immensely. Did the victim fall afoul of German spies or local witches?

Mi chiamo Don Tillman, ho trentanove anni e sono un professore di genetica presso l'Università di Melbourne. Ho una posizione ben retribuita, seguo un'alimentazione strutturata e regolare, ho molta cura del mio fisico. Nel regno animale, non avrei alcuna difficoltà a trovare una compagna e a riprodurmi. Perciò, il motivo per cui sono ancora scapolo mi è oscuro. Tuttavia ho fatto una scoperta incredibile: statisticamente, gli uomini sposati sono in media più felici ... e vivono più a lungo! Per questo ho dato vita a un progetto: il Progetto Moglie ..