Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories Spooky Praise for The Hymn to

Praise for The Hymn to Dionysus '[Pulley] makes the ancient world feel close-by

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this page-turning story of loss and longing will twist your heart' RACHEL HORE'Mary and Jim's story will draw you in

Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories Spooky Praise for The Hymn toThe world of books has played a striking role in the history of English vocabulary. Book itself is one of the oldest words in the language, originating from boc in Old English, and appears in many commonly used expressions today by the book, bring to book and bookworm to name a few. With the arrival of printing, typesetting and the development of the newspaper industry came terminology that developed into commonly used phrases such as stop the press,