The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams classics & poetry for getting along with a

for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them)

“Hitchhiker fans rejoice

All of England lies at his feet

almost as much as he wants her

The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams classics & poetry for getting along with aIn 1901, the word Bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esmes place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and