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Gliff

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of How to be both

Companion piece

Everyman's Pocket Classics complements highly successful Pocket Poets series, offering the best prose writing in a handy pocket-sized format. Like all Everyman Library books, each title is printed on a cream-wove, acid-free paper with full cloth sewn binding, headbands and silk ribbon marker. Eminently collectable and great gifts.

Scottish Stories

Free Love

Reunion

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Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021

Summer

The Accidental

Spring

Winter

SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Autumn

Public library and other stories

Hotel World

How to be Both

Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

Artful

There but for the

The First Person and Other Stories

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Glyph

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The new novel from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith - a companion to Gliff 
 
Glyph follows Ali Smith's 2024 novel Gliff and tells a story hidden in the first novel. Gliff is set in a near future rife with surveillance, where people can be labelled 'unverifiable' by the state. It follows siblings Briar and Rose as they attempt to survive in a world that strives to crush curiosity and meaning. 
 
 
©2025 Ali Smith (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Glyph (a signifying mark – as in ‘hieroglyph’) is the second book of the interconnected pair that began with Gliff (a Scottish/northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse). Glyph will tell a story which is hidden in the Gliff so the two books will belong together but can be read independently. 
 
The two books form a new step in Ali’s writing journey, different in form and feeling from the Seasonal Quartet (plus Companion piece). Ali always keeps her novels under wraps until they are finished, and the surprise of reading a book only when it is complete, knowing almost nothing of its content, is part of the magic.

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