Contemporary Book Club - Gliff, Ali Smith

Join our monthly contemporary literary book club at Books on the Rise where we read the best new literary fiction and creative non-fiction!

This month we're reading GLIFF by renowned author Ali Smith

Tickets are £4.99, or free when you buy a copy of the book from Books on the Rise!

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The first instalment of an audacious duology finds the incomparable literary novelist on scintillating form, as she tackles themes both complex and universal.

The first of two novels, Gliff, which is a Scottish/northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse, will be followed by a second novel in 2025, called Glyph (a signifying mark – as in ‘hieroglyph’). Glyph, the second novel, will tell a story which is hidden in the first so the two books will belong together but can be read independently.