Do you love words and what you can do with them? Then this book is for you. When you assemble a pile of letters, magical things can happen: they can become an expression of our history, our culture and our relationships with one another. In this engaging book, writer Tom Collins takes us on a journey of discovery, finding out how language has shaped our lives and our beliefs. In great literature, phrases, sentences and paragraphs can carry you along, but the individual words have their glories too.