The first of two new, interconnected novels from bestselling, award-winning, Booker-Prize shortlisted author Ali SmithFollowing her dazzling five-novel portrait of our age, the 'Seasonal' sequence, Ali Smith returns with the first of two novels which belong together but can be read independently.Gliff - a Scots or Northern word for a glimpse, a shock, a glance - will not only tell its own story but also contain within it a hidden story, to be revealed only in a second novel, Glyph - from the Greek, meaning a mark, carving or symbol - to be published a year later.In form and feeling, Gliff will light a new, fabular and fabulist path for Ali Smith and for us through the gathering darkness of our chaotic times.

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.