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…containing extracts from the novels (although the text of ‘China Dreams’ is complete) and unpublished short stories and poems.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 Britain's most challenging and original novelists:” Times Literary Supplement

 

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

 

‘Perry, Young and Old’

 

‘In The Mirror’

 

 

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:

 

On ‘The Ginger Man’

 

On ‘The Honourable Schoolboy’