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    Apr 30, 2021 2 minutes

    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    by Pip Williams

    Published by Chatto & Windus

    Price £14.99 Pages 432

    ISBN 9781784743864

    In a garden shed, known as the Scriptorium, lexicographers are compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme, endlessly curious, sits on her widowed father’s lap as he sorts through words and their meanings, then takes her place under his table,

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