How to Be Both by Ali Smith Only for Adam and Amelia

Only for Adam and Amelia

It includes inventions that have changed the course of history

British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon

A survivor of life and death

unforgettable in its descriptions

How to Be Both by Ali Smith Only for Adam and AmeliaHow to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double take, it's a fast moving genre bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious,