Dennis Duncan

How to organise everything — Judith Flanders’s history of finding things

Alphabetical order is just one of many systems of indexing

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  • A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

    Judith Flanders

    Picador, pp. 345, £16

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