Dictionary of Lost Words: The Play
The Stage Adaptation
$27.99
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2024
Summary
In 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word bondmaid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923046870 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192304687X |
| Author: | Verity Laughton, Pip Williams |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 130mm x 199mm |
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‘There will not be this year a more original novel published. I just know it.’ Tom Keneally
Verity Laughton
Verity Laughton is a South Australia-based playwright. Her work has been produced throughout Australia and internationally. Known for her versatility, she has written mainstage drama, a musical, adaptations and works for children, dance, radio and the screen. Her awards include AWGIE awards for Radio and Community Theatre, the Griffin and Inscription awards, and the Adelaide Critics Circle Best New Play. She has been nominated for the NSW Premier’s Prize, the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, the Blake National Poetry Prize, the New Dramatists Award, the Rodney Seaborn Award (twice), the STC Patrick White Award and the Griffin Theatre’s Martin-Lysicrates Prize.
Pip Williams is an Australian writer and social researcher. She has published research, essays, memoir and the odd poem, but she is best known for her companion novels The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. Since its publication in 2020, The Dictionary of Lost Words has become an international bestseller. It has won a number of major Australian book awards, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the prestigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It was chosen for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club and went on to be a New York Times bestseller. As well as being adapted for stage, The Dictionary of Lost Words is being turned into a book concerto and has been optioned for a limited series. Pip’s second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, won the 2024 Australian Book Industry Award for general fiction book of the year. Pip’s books have been published around the world and translated into more than thirty languages.
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