Gliff - Ali Smith Mudpuppy but there's a wide world

but there's a wide world outside

Ben Koenig has no idea at first why the highest echelons of the CIA would need his help

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the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power

Gliff - Ali Smith Mudpuppy but there's a wide worldThe first of two novels, Gliff, which is a Scottish northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse, will be followed by a second novel in 2025, called Glyph (a signifying mark as in hieroglyph). Glyph, the second novel, will tell a story which is hidden in the first so the two books will belong together but can be read independently. The two books will form a new step in Alis writing journey, different in form and