Susie Dent (Author)
Susie Dent is a writer and broadcaster on language. She recently
celebrated 25 years as 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. Susie answers notes and queries about words and phrases in
weekly columns in the Radio Times and The Week Junior. She has
written for the Independent on Sunday, the Telegraph, and the
Times, and is the author of several books, including her latest,
Dent's Modern Tribes. 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_dent
Harriet Hobday (Illustrator)
Harriet Hobday is an extraordinary new talent, a recent graduate of
the MA Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art.
Currently based in Edinburgh, she was highly commended in the
Macmillan Prize 2015 and runner-up for The Batsford Prize 2018.
I enjoyed this so much. As a pessimistic lover of words, this was
both comforting and heart-warming. I always think that learning
about etymology is a way to appreciate the secret code of the
world, and Susie is the perfect guide and companion and lexical
cheerleader.
*Stig Abel*
Susie Dent's way with words always makes me happy. This is my kind
of book. There's positivity on every page.
*Gyles Brandreth*
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