The website of
SID SMITH
…containing extracts from the novels (although the text of ‘China Dreams’ is complete) and unpublished short stories and poems.
NOVELS
From ‘Something Like a House’ (Picador, 2001) Whitbread First Novel Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize
From ‘A House by the River’
(Picador, 2003) “With A House By the
River, Smith has fully established himself as one of
The full text of ‘China Dreams’ (Picador, 2007) “Plot summary cannot capture the strange beauty of this spare and intricately constructed novel:” The Guardian
From ‘Nisbet and the Steam Kettle’: a work in progress
STORIES ABOUT MIRRORS
JOURNALISM
I’ve been a journalist for years. However, most of that time was pre-internet, so the stuff is buried in yellowing paper, and now I’m a sub-editor on The Times, correcting other people’s words instead of originating my own. But here are a couple of pieces: