Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship : An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2012) his overall conception of political

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Winner of the Miles Franklin AwardWinner of the Encore AwardWinner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered AwardShortlisted for the Costa Novel PrizeShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction

Frank - no ordinary sixteen-year-old - lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village

A salesman who drives around and around a roundabout

In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries

Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship : An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2012) his overall conception of politicalWhy does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English or Modern British and American English still be