Glyph
  • Published: 29 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405971140
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00

Glyph

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Hardback
17 Feb 2026
EBook
29 Jan 2026
Audiobook
29 Jan 2026
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The second of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith

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.
  • Published: 29 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405971140
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for Glyph

Ali Smith is one of our greatest living novelists, the Virginia Woolf of our times

Observer

Few writers today can make a more compelling claim to singularity of innovation and sustained brilliance

Times Literary Supplement

One of the most intelligent, inventive, downright impressive writers working anywhere in the world today

The Scotsman

Ali Smith takes risks. She jumps from high places and lands on her feet

Jackie Kay, Scotland on Sunday
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