Le club des lexicographes d'Oxford

by Susie Dent

512 pages

Published March 4, 2026

About the author

Dent was educated at the Marist Convent in Ascot, an independent Roman Catholic day school. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford for her B.A. in modern languages, then to Princeton University for her master's degree in German.

Dent is serves as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on long-running British game show Countdown. At the time she began work on Countdown in 1992, she had just started working for the Oxford University Press on producing English dictionaries, having previously worked on bilingual dictionaries.

Reviews

[louloute · Rating 3 out of 5]

eeeeeeh i don’t know
it was not what i thought it would be. and not sure about the writing style. i don’t know if it was the translation or just the general writing, but i was not convinced. i feel like it went everywhere all at once, there were too many unnecessary details.
it was still cosy though, even if it was more crime than language

[Anne-Madeleine · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5 !