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ALI SMITH’S GLYPH : EASY TO READ AND EASY TO FORGET

Carol Dance / 22 March 2026

Ali Smith is a Scottish writer of experimental political novels. GLYPH is her sequel to her novel Gliff (2024) but is essentially a stand-alone story. The novel focuses on the childhood of two sisters, Petra and Patricia (nicknamed Patch), in …

Literature

liam pieper’s first novel : the toymaker

Richard Cotter / 29 June 2016

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“Let me tell you a story about my grandfather.”

This is the opening and closing line of Liam Pieper’s colossally compulsive novel, THE TOYMAKER, a story that has its beginnings in the Holocaust and its finale in Melbourne some seventy …