Death Writ Large by Susie Dent (SIGNED & SPRAYED EDGE PRE-ORDER) #literature because to draw is to

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Death Writ Large by Susie Dent (SIGNED & SPRAYED EDGE PRE-ORDER) #literature because to draw is toSIGNED & SPRAYED EDGE EDITION DATE OF RELEASE: 13 AUG 2026 A brand new linguistic mystery from Countdown's resident lexicographer, Susie Dent, set in the city of Oxford. AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW A mysterious letter. A silenced scholar. A city paved with injustice. When mysterious symbols appear as graffiti around Oxford, lexicographer Martha Thornhill recognises them from an alphabet created by a deceased writer whose papers she once worked on. But