Book review: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
- Written by Roslyn Petelin, Course coordinator, The University of Queensland
Quotation slips for the first Oxford English Dictionary. Owen McKnight/Flickr, CC BY-SA
When a literary luminary such as Thomas Kenneally declares so early in 2020 that he is certain a “more original” novel “will not be published this year”, the reviewer faces a challenge. The book in question is The Dictionary of Lost Words...
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