The
website of
SID SMITH
…containing extracts from the novels (although the text of China Dreams is complete), journalism, and unpublished short stories and poems.
POEMS
Only a couple at the moment.
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
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 at The Times, correcting other people’s words instead of originating my own. But here are a couple of pieces: