Words for Life : To Boost Every Day of the Year, Susie Dent

Words for Life : To Boost Every Day of the Year, Susie DentNew Hardback Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it. Do you know the name for someone who loves reading in bed, or what a binfluencer does? How about the medieval invention of Lubberland as a place for lazy teenagers, or the story of Mayday as a request for help? Lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent does and here are her greatest discoveries. From wabbit to dust bunnies, and from the strange

Intertidal reveals an unseen world

In ten short and informative essays

centuries apart—one of whom might just be the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are both forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard

Using recently declassified information from the Russian archives

Radical Rest is a blueprint for change and a salve for the soul

The wanderers who travelled between workhouses

And a thrilling new murder to solve

A unique travel guide celebrating traditional British pubs - this book will take you to all the best watering holes you can reach by paddleboard

Few landscapes in northern England offer mountain bikers such a variety of terrain and history

though her political judgement could be equally erratic

Birmingham

mounting their own shadow war