In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for the, this is the first comprehensive critical guide to Smith's work.

Bringing together leading scholars, Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives covers such topics as:

- Language, truth and reality
- Spectral presences and the uncanny
- Gender and sexuality
- Cosmopolitanism
- Smith's...