Seasons greetings! And we can't think of anything more festive or merry-making than this glorious conversation with lexicographer, author and podcaster Susie Dent! As well as writing many books on words and language, with the latest being the brilliant An Emotional Dictionary, Susie resides in Dictionary Corner on Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and hosts the podcast Something Rhymes With Purple with Gyles Brandreth. We talked to her about tricky words in Dickens, the perils of reading your own audio books, the wonder of swearing and her favourite book to give as a gift. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com
BOOKS
Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus
Susie Dent - An Emotional Dictionary
Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Twice Upon a Time: Susie Dent
Noel Streatfeild - Thursday's Child
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
Francis Grose - The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Samuel Johnson - Johnson's Dictionary
Michele Obama - Becoming
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Mr Wrong
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
DH Lawrence - Short Stories
DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
Jilly Cooper - Harriet
Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat
Louis Macneice - Autumn Journal
Christina Rossetti - Artists Studio
Mary Oliver - Collected Poems
Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport
Gyles Brandreth - Dancing By the Light of the Moon
Sam West - Pandemic Poems
Zadie Smith - Feel Free
Anne Lamott - Almost Everything
Gyles Brandreth - Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait
Alain-Fournier - La Grand Meaulnes
Julian Barnes - Le Grand Meaulnes Revisited
Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
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