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Justin Hill
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🏆 Twice nom. for Booker Prize
📚 Winner Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask, & Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes
💂‍♀️Creator Minka Lesk
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🎓 PhD
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"roofed passage, vent for smoke," later "shed for animals" (mid-15c.), of unknown origin. The proposal that it is a diminutive of Old English hof "dwellings, farm" is "etymologically and chronologically inadmissible" [OED]. Meaning "shed for human habitation; rude or miserable cabin" is from 1620s.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
mid-13c., *leden, "make a plea in court," from Anglo-French *leder, Old French *laidier, "***ad at court" (11c.), from Medieval Latin placitare, from Late Latin placitum "lawsuit."
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
ah! thank you! Yes, lovely work! Esp. like the scaring on Jaromir's head. 👏👏👏
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"mass of **our or meal moistened and mixed for baking," Middle English **gh, from Old English *ag "**ugh," from Proto-Germanic *daigaz "something kneaded" (source also of Old Norse deig, Swedish deg, Middle Dutch deech, Dutch deeg, Old High German teic)
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
but unbroken as they fight to prove they deserve the legacy that was left to them.

READ IT BECAUSE
Captain Minka Lesk returns and is tested as never before. As she leads her regiment in the Gallows Cluster, she must deal with a threat she's never seen – a jungle that wants to eat her troops alive!
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
...As loyal fortresses fall on the world of Alia, Minka Lesk’s company leads a desperate gambit that is the last hope of turning the tide – but the jungle they’re battling through is as deadly as the enemy they’re fighting and her regiment is shattering around her.'
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
mid-15c., **inen, "express an opinion or opinions; to think, suppose," also transitive, "be of the **inion that," from Old French **piner, **iner (15c.) and directly from Latin **inari "have an **inion, be of **inion, suppose, conjecture, think, judge," which is of unknown origin.
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM