This time, Parlabane is on a cruise ship in the Atlantic during a fan convention for a Sixties TV series. Desperate to redeem himself in the eyes of his boss, he is on the trail of a decades-old unsolved murder. Glyph by Ali SmithHamish Hamilton, £20A standalone novel described as “family” to Smith’s last novel, Gliff, this is an overtly anti-war novel. In this novel, Deborah Levy’s narrator goes to Paris - where Stein lived, making friends with Picasso and Hemingway - to find out exactly who she was and why she matters. This is war fiction with a fantasy twist.

Source: The Herald December 27, 2025 22:01 UTC