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  • Location: Oxford

Guilty By Definition

Guilty By Definition

Why a Booktrail?

2024: An anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary….

  • ISBN: 978-1804183946
  • Genre: Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year.

For Martha Thornhill, the new senior editor, the date can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant older sister Charlie went missing.

After a decade abroad, Martha has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. Have the ghosts she left behind her been waiting for her return?

When more letters arrive, and Martha and her team pull apart the complex clues within them, the mystery becomes ever more insistent and troubling. It seems Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, and someone is trying to lead the lexicographers towards the truth. But other forces are no less desperate to keep it well and truly buried.

Travel Guide

Oxford

Oh lovers of words, libraries and dictionaries, rejoice! This is a tour for lovers of all of these things. We see what it’s like to work for a dictionary, a publishing house and to wander among those who love and work with words every day.

Word fans will want to live inside this book.

Dictionaries have hidden depths and secrets to share on every page. A feast of words!

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Guilty by Definition

Destination/location: Oxford  Author/guide: Susie Dent Departure Time: 2024

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