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Autumn Reading Group

Sunday 3rd May 2020

Venue
Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews, 7 Greyfriars Garden, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9HG
Doors Open
7.10pm
Start Time
7.30pm
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Join us for a special series of reading groups as we work our way through Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet in the run up to publication of the final installment, Summer.

Ali Smith is an award winning novelist who has been described by Sebastian Barry as ‘Scotland’s Nobel laureate-in-waiting’. She has won the Whitbread Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Costa Novel Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize several times.

In 2016, in the wake of the Brexit referendum, Ali Smith began an experiment in fast paced publishing. She set herself the task of writing and editing a manuscript in a matter of months. The result was the Booker Shortlisted Autumn. Since then she has published Winter and Spring in the following years, with Summer due in July this year. All four books can be read on their own or as part of the cycle. They deal with themes of language, society, division, loneliness, friendship, art and literature. They are breathtakingly beautiful novels that examine the state of the nation with unparalleled humanity.

The first reading group will discuss Autumn. A place at the reading group is £5 and this voucher can be used on the night of the event against the purchase of any book in the shop.