Eley Williams
Liar's Dictionary: A winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Awards
Liar's Dictionary: A winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Awards
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Swanby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary is a playful delight, shortlisted for the Betty Trask Awards and the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021. It is filled with fictitious entries known as "mountweazels" penned by Peter Winceworth, a man wishing to make his lasting mark in 1899. Young intern Mallory must uncover these mountweazels before the dictionary can be digitized for modern readers. The book is praised for its cleverness, humor, and vivid language. It is described as a public joy, a singular, hilarious, word-drunk novel, and a classic comic novel. The author, Eley Williams, is praised for her erudition, playfulness, and lovely sweetness.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2021
Publisher: Cornerstone
A WINNER OF THE 2021 BETTY TRASK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021
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Joyous
SPECTATOR
Remarkable
SUNDAY TIMES
A playful delight...
A glorious novel
OBSERVER
Swansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary
is riddled with fictitious entries known as
mountweazels
penned by Peter Winceworth,
a man wishing to make his lasting mark back in 1899.
It's up to young intern Mallory to uncover these mountweazels before the dictionary can be digitised for modern readers.
Lost in Winceworth's imagination - a world full of meaningless words - will Mallory finally discover the secret to living a meaningful life?
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Made me almost tearful with gratitude that a book as clever as this could give such uncomplicated pleasure...
And when you find a book like this, you grab it, and you hold it close.
JOHN SELF
A delight...
As funny and vivid as Dickens, as moving and memorable as Nabokov...
An extraordinarily large-hearted work.
THE CRITIC
Deft and clever, refreshing and rewarding...
An assured and satisfying writer, her language rich and intricate and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic and lampoonist enough to be terribly funny.
LITERARY REVIEW
[The] most exciting of young British writers...
Williams luxuriates in words and wordplay, in definition and precision and invention...
The Liar's Dictionary
is a public joy, and Eley Williams a free-spirited literary kook with bags of potential.
BIG ISSUE
A singular, hilarious, word-drunk novel, which I suspect will be seen in the future as a classic
comic novel.
DAVID HAYDEN, IRISH TIMES
The Liar's Dictionary
is the book I was longing for...
Positively intoxicated with the joy and wond.
Weight: 204g
Dimension: 129 x 196 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786090591
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