The Dictionary People'[An] astonishing book' Sunday Times What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By 1928, its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and

blood sprayed on the front of his cheap print shirt

But now the emperor is on his deathbed

they discover connections that stretch from London to Lahore

launch an inquiry into this deeply disturbing murder

save his cousin

'Deeply moving' Sunday Times

this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series

At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers

leading to substance abuse and despair

At the reading of Richards will

his cousin Edward

so powerful' Saul Bellow