{"id":3392,"date":"2026-07-06T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:26:00","slug":"ali-smiths-everyman-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/ali-smiths-everyman-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Smith&#8217;s Everyman Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heals0344_2_481x720_72_RGB.jpg\" alt=\"Heals0344_2_481x720_72_RGB\" width=\"481\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heals0344_2_481x720_72_RGB.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.heals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heals0344_2_481x720_72_RGB-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After we looked at Philip Pullman&#8217;s favourite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymanslibrary.co.uk\/\">Everyman&#8217;s Library<\/a> classics last week<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">we thought we would issue another call for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Author Ali Smith, whose novel &#8216;How to Be Both&#8217; won the 2014 Costa\u00a0Novel Award,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">has recently joined\u00a0the Everyman\u2019s Library advisory\u00a0editorial board where she offers her<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">advice on future titles. Here she chooses\u00a0five books to form her essential<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Everyman\u2019s Library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018It\u2019s like approaching bookshelf perfection just the\u00a0thought of having these<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">books by my side \u2013 and with\u00a0that phrase I\u2019m recalling the quote from the medieval<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Everyman play that turns up on the inside of many\u00a0of Everyman\u2019s publications,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cEveryman, I will go\u00a0with thee and be thy guide, in thy most need to go by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">thy side\u201d. I\u2019ll have the best, the toughest, the most\u00a0entertaining, the most<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">thought-provoking writing in\u00a0the world, from ancient to modern, from one side<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">of the earth to the other, from tragedy to comedy to\u00a0mystery to magical<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">transformation.A world of books,\u00a0all tucked under one arm \u2013 that&#8217;s me accompanied.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beloved by Toni Morrison<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Metamorphoses by Ovid<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Theban Plays by Sophocles<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; After we looked at Philip Pullman&#8217;s favourite Everyman&#8217;s Library classics last week we thought we would issue another call for inspiration. Author Ali Smith, whose novel &#8216;How to Be Both&#8217; won the 2014 Costa\u00a0Novel Award, has recently joined\u00a0the Everyman\u2019s Library advisory\u00a0editorial board where she offers her advice on future titles. 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