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Praise for Gliff

Here is a voice that moves with lightness and precision, where bravery and goodness triumph in spirit over jeopardy and fear . . . Smith is good at fable-ising, and at taking a young perspective in order to question ...

Financial Times

Ali Smith’s miraculous Gliff is at once a pitch-black take on the authoritarian future and a tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting portrait of two young siblings as they battle to escape it. Full of joke ...

Paul Murray, The Irish Times, 'Books of the year'

A vivid, alluringly chatty novelist capable of deft and unforeseeable sidesteps . . . Smith’s new novel is a charm . . . Smith excels at the creation of a lost, curious, intelligent mind adrift in a world of surpris ...

Daily Telegraph

Here is a voice that moves with lightness and precision, where bravery and goodness triumph in spirit over jeopardy and fear . . . Smith is good at fable-ising, and at taking a young perspective in order to question ...

Financial Times

Ali Smith’s miraculous Gliff is at once a pitch-black take on the authoritarian future and a tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting portrait of two young siblings as they battle to escape it. Full of joke ...

Paul Murray, The Irish Times, 'Books of the year'

A vivid, alluringly chatty novelist capable of deft and unforeseeable sidesteps . . . Smith’s new novel is a charm . . . Smith excels at the creation of a lost, curious, intelligent mind adrift in a world of surpris ...

Daily Telegraph

Here is a voice that moves with lightness and precision, where bravery and goodness triumph in spirit over jeopardy and fear . . . Smith is good at fable-ising, and at taking a young perspective in order to question ...

Financial Times

Ali Smith’s miraculous Gliff is at once a pitch-black take on the authoritarian future and a tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting portrait of two young siblings as they battle to escape it. Full of joke ...

Paul Murray, The Irish Times, 'Books of the year'

A vivid, alluringly chatty novelist capable of deft and unforeseeable sidesteps . . . Smith’s new novel is a charm . . . Smith excels at the creation of a lost, curious, intelligent mind adrift in a world of surpris ...

Daily Telegraph

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A day in the life of a book editor with Simon Prosser

A day in the life of a book editor with Simon Prosser

Join Rhianna as she talks to Simon Prosser about what a typical day is like as a books editor at Penguin Books Simon is a Publishing Director with decades of experience working with authors such as Bernardine Evaristo, Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Micheal Magee. Click the button below to listen or continue scrolling to […]