One of the most celebrated voices in contemporary literature, Ali Smith's new novel, Glyph, tells a story hidden in her earlier novel Gliff – one title deriving from the Greek word for a mark, carving or symbol, the other from a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse. Ali Smith will explore the weaving together of these two novels with Claire Armitstead, former Associate Editor of the Guardian.

An author, playwright, academic and journalist Ali Smith has been shortlisted four times for the Booker Prize; won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her novels and short story collections include The Accidental, Hotel World, How to be Both, the Seasonal Quartet, and Companion Piece.

Former writer and editor at the Guardian, Claire Armitstead joined the newspaper in 1992 and worked there for over 30 years as arts editor, literary editor, head of books, and as editor, Culture. She is the editor of Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City; and is a regular commentator on radio.