{"product_id":"9780241665596","title":"Glyph","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Smith, Ali\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 29 January 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Hamish Hamilton Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e143 x 224 x 27 | 366g\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":"Smith, Ali","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52509258121400,"sku":"9780241665596","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780241665596.jpg?v=1769596810","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780241665596","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}