{"product_id":"9780241665596","title":"Glyph","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Science fiction | Fiction: special features | Social issues \u0026amp; processes\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 29\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e January 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Hamish Hamilton Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 288 pages \u003cbr\u003e222mm x 142mm | 366g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhosts don't exist.  They don't. End of. Story, however.  It is haunting. Everything tells it.  It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real?Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making.  A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.  A standalone novel, it’s family to Gliff (2024).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56494899986807,"sku":"9780241665596","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9780241665596.jpg?v=1767962946","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9780241665596","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}