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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
  • Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
  • Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

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Mary

When I was at university, I used to drag out my two-volume, tiny-tiny font OED and peruse it for hours, particularly when I was working on Emily Dickinson's poetry. Loved the discoveries made within its covers. It sounds as if the making the book is likely just as captivating.

Cornflower

You're right about the discoveries, Mary!
I'm looking forward to reading 'The Making of the OED' having read the Murray biography and knowing a little about some of the other lexicographers such as Tolkien and William Craigie (another amazing man).

Toffeeapple

The OED has removed the feature due to misuse - how very sad.

Cornflower

Yes, very sad. Why can't people just do the right thing?

Gillie

Hear, hear! Wonderful though the Internet is for a quick reference, nothing beats looking at random though a reference book, or maybe with serious intent, especially a dictionary!

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