The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams classics & poetry On a boat in the

On a boat in the Arctic Circle

‘white root’

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

The akam poems are concerned with love in all its varied situation: clandestine and illicit

almost as much as he wants her

The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams classics & poetry On a boat in theIn 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