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The Roots We Share
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  • Published: 9 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241717837
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
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The Roots We Share

100 words that bring us together

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Hardback
21 Oct 2025
EBook
9 Oct 2025
EBook
9 Oct 2025
Audiobook
9 Oct 2025
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A follow-up title to the bestselling Roots of Happiness, this is a beautifully illustrated book from author, broadcaster and word expert, Susie Dent, highlighting 100 words and phrases from the English language and beyond that bring people together.

Susie Dent, bestselling author, broadcaster and word expert, is on a mission to find 100 words and phrases to bring people together.

There are times when the world feels more divided than ever. But it is important to remember the things that unite rather than divide us. Susie has searched far and wide to unearth words and phrases - old, new, and long-forgotten - that celebrate harmony, unity, and the universal languages that connect people across the world.

Whether you want to conjobble (chat with a friend over some food), to be goodwilly (kind, generous, and cheerful), to atone for a mistake (become 'at' 'one' with someone again) or simply head off on a coddiwomple (a journey with no destination), this joyous collection of words celebrates the things in life that bind us together, from friendship, love and peace, to community, music and even the stars. These are the roots we share.
  • Published: 9 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241717837
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
Categories:

About the authors

Susie Dent

Susie Dent is an independent editor and translator who appears regularly in Countdown's 'dictionary corner'. She is the author of six editions of The Language Report, an annual guide to the new words and phrases that find their way into the English language. Her book on dialects, How to Talk like a Local, was published by Random House in 2010.
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Harriet Hobday

Harriet Hobday is an extraordinary new talent, a recent graduate of the MA Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Currently based in Edinburgh, she was highly commended in the Macmillan Prize 2015 and runner-up for The Batsford Prize 2018.
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