Roots of happinessSusie Dent is on a mission to find light in the deepest, darkest corners of our language. It takes just a short browse through the dictionary to spot how it is filled with negative words. But Susie has searched far and wide to unearth happy and uplifting words and phrases that, in some cases, have been long forgotten and, in other cases, have only just been discovered. This is the book to lift you out of your mubble fubbles (a slightly sad mood), make

Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave who has known no other life - is aghast to find himself selected as personal servant to one of these men

his mother sadly passed away

This work guides the reader through a country blessed with some of the most dramatic landscapes in Britain - a land of mountains

An invitation to dinner at the house of local businessman Matthew Pullan lifts the lid on the bubbling cauldron of grudges and resentment that is Faithly village

In one shape or another

They saw a chance

Or what light is made of and why you need it

the only dog in Sweden (and possibly all Scandinavia) who can lip-read

and just what is it about butter that makes us feel so at ease

These hilarious essays were inspired by that move

they look only to their own survival and will not unite as they once did under Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur

A nostalgic and amusing account of the social and cultural history at the end of the 1970s