Glyph

Gliff #2

by Ali Smith

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.

Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, British Literature

240 pages, Paperback

Expected publication January 1, 2026

About the author

Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.

Reviews

[emma]

more literary novels should have sequels

[s.penkevich [hiatus-will return-miss you all]]

yesssssssssssssssssssssssss can't wait

[victoria marie]

30 october 2025 release

[Madeline Tyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning! The best writing of children since Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend and Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose. All about stories and storytelling, ghosts, sisters and memory. Loved!

[Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was so good! better than gliff in my opinion which i didn't get on well with. ali smith i love u