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and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters

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and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman’s bestselling series

he recruits an army of Boxers - commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils

The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel Humor Essays and populated with a castNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER REESES BOOK CLUB PICK Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.The New York Times Book Review A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious,