Autumn

There’s something special about each season of the year, wherever we live in the world. Follow the children in this book as they discover and explore the unique character of autumn, through indoor and outdoor play. Sensory, detailed and child-centred, this is the perfect introduction for young children to the cycles of the year.

This is one of a series of four books without text, which lead the young child through the seasons of the year. Full of fun, active illustrations, this chunky board book shows the joys of playing in leaves, collecting conkers, flying kites and making jam.

This is one of a series of four books without text, which lead the young child through the seasons of the year. Full of fun, active illustrations, this chunky board book shows the joys of playing in leaves, collecting conkers, flying kites and making jam.

There’s something special about each season of the year, wherever we live in the world. Follow the children in this book as they discover and explore the unique character of autumn, through indoor and outdoor play. Sensory, detailed and child-centred, this is the perfect introduction for young children to the cycles of the year.

"Autumn" is the first book in Ali Smith's fantastic and praised Seasonal Quartet. Daniel Gluck and Elizabeth Demand makes an odd friendship. Daniel is 101 years old and Elizabeth 32. He is waiting to die in the nursing home shortly after the Brexit poll. Elizabeth was warned by her mother in 1993 about close to their mysterious neighbor who just moved in across them. But Elizabeth refused to listen to her mother. Ali Smith tells a vivid and thoughtful story of today's England through her beautiful characters' life. All the four books in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet can be read separately but is interconnected in a wide-ranging timescale.

"Autumn" is the first book in Ali Smith's fantastic and praised Seasonal Quartet. Daniel Gluck and Elizabeth Demand makes an odd friendship. Daniel is 101 years old and Elizabeth 32. He is waiting to die in the nursing home shortly after the Brexit poll. Elizabeth was warned by her mother in 1993 about close to their mysterious neighbor who just moved in across them. But Elizabeth refused to listen to her mother. Ali Smith tells a vivid and thoughtful story of today's England through her beautiful characters' life. All the four books in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet can be read separately but is interconnected in a wide-ranging timescale.

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Dwight Garner/ The New York Times , Martha Kearney/ The Guardian , Slate , Chicago Tribune , Southern Living , Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel , The Morning News , Kirkus Reviews Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends--Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984--look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love--and stories themselves.

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Dwight Garner/ The New York Times , Martha Kearney/ The Guardian , Slate , Chicago Tribune , Southern Living , Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel , The Morning News , Kirkus Reviews Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends--Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984--look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love--and stories themselves.

The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter. 'Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and enlighten anyone who opens their eyes to it' The Times Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the material and natural world - from twilight to the migration of birds, from Van Gogh to forgiveness - with the precision and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark. With artwork by Vanessa Baird 'This book is full of wonders... The world feels repainted' New York Times

The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter. 'Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and enlighten anyone who opens their eyes to it' The Times Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the material and natural world - from twilight to the migration of birds, from Van Gogh to forgiveness - with the precision and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark. With artwork by Vanessa Baird 'This book is full of wonders... The world feels repainted' New York Times