Guilty by Definition

Name: Guilty by Definition
Brand: Bonnier Books Ltd
SKU: 9781804183953
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The instant Sunday Times bestselling debut novel from Countdown's Susie Dent

By Susie Dent

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( 1,349 ratings, 337 reviews)

Brief Description

The debut murder mystery from the resident genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent. An anonymous letter arrives at the offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary containing a challenge for the team of lexicographers working there. It's clear that it's not the usual run-of-the-mill, eccentric enquiry.... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

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Guilty by Definition

Agatha Christie meets Countdown in the debut mystery novel from the Genius of Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent

Agatha Christie meets Countdown in the debut mystery novel from the Genius of Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent

Description

The debut murder mystery from the resident genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent.

An anonymous letter arrives at the offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary containing a challenge for the team of lexicographers working there. It's clear that it's not the usual run-of-the-mill, eccentric enquiry. The letter hints at secrets, lies, and a year: 2010. For Martha Thornhill, the new senior editor, that year can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant, beautiful older sister Charlie went missing.

After a decade living abroad, Martha has returned to her father, her family home, and the city whose institutions have defined her family, but the ghosts she thought at rest were only waiting for her to return.

More letters arrive, pointing towards a secret in the heart of the dictionary itself. As Martha and her colleagues start pulling apart the clues, the questions become more insistent and troubling. Charlie's disappearance is one of a series of secret absences going back centuries, and someone wants to keep those secrets buried.

PRAISE FOR SUSIE DENT:

'Susie Dent is a national treasure' - Richard Osman

'Nobody on earth knows more about the English language than Susie Dent and nobody writes about it more entertainingly' - Gyles Brandreth

'Stuffed with delightful words . . . it'll keep Scrabble fanatics and wordsmiths entertained for hours' - Radio Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804183953

Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Zaffre

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 481g

Pages: 400

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As Heard on Radio NZ Crime & Thriller Education & Reference Fiction General Fiction Susie Dent

About the Author

Susie Dent is a writer and broadcaster on language. She recently celebrated 30 years as a co-presenter and the resident word expert on C4's Countdown, and also appears on the show's comedy sister 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown. Susie comments regularly on TV and radio on words in the news. She has contributed to discussions on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Word of Mouth, Saturday Live, More or Less, Today, and on Radio 5 Live's Breakfast and Drive programmes. She has made guest appearances on many TV programmes including BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, This Morning, Test the Nation, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Not Going Out, and The One Show.

Susie answers notes and queries about words and phrases in weekly columns in the Radio Times, The Week Junior, the I newspaper, and Why Now. She has written for the Independent on Sunday, The Telegraph, and The Times, and is the author of several books, including her latest, An Emotional Dictionary: Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder, published in 2022.

She is a spokesperson for Oxford University Press, and has been a judge on the Costa Book Awards and on the Academy Excellence Awards. Susie regularly delivers key-note speeches to both small companies and major corporations on language and communication.

Susie lives in Oxford where she has developed a passion for cycling - Lycra or no, she is never without her little black book for jotting down any new words picked up in the wild.

@susie_dent