{"title":"Ali Smith","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"how-to-be-both","title":"How To Be Both","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eNOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015\u003c\/b\u003e  Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.  \u003ci\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel all about art's versatility. 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