Susie Dent interviewed by Elizabeth Garner

Writer and broadcaster on language Susie Dent picks out 100 words to show readers young and old how you can use words to make the world a happier place.

Join Dent in an engaging event as she shares happy and uplifting words and phrases, some of which have been long forgotten or only just discovered. Escape the mubble fubbles (a slightly sad mood) and be a gigglemug (someone who never stops smiling) in this brilliant event that will leave you forblissed (extremely happy).

‘Susie Dent’s way with words always makes me happy. This is my kind of book. There’s positivity on every page.’ Gyles Brandreth

Dent has been the resident word expert on Channel 4’s Countdown for more than 25 years and appears on 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown. She is a regular television commentator on words in the news and her previous books include Dent’s Modern Tribes. Here she talks to Elizabeth Garner, a teacher of creative writing and author of two novels underpinned by myth and folklore, Nightdancing and The Ingenious Edgar Jones, and a recently-published collection of rewritten folktales Lost & Found.

Age 7+