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Word Books and Dictionaries
Word Books and Dictionaries
Suduko, puzzle books, crosswords and crossword solvers, puns and pithy quotations, wordplay and all things semantic. A verbophiles delight for all wordsmiths and scribblers.
| EDIT. BY CONNIE ROBERTSON Book Number: 23928 |
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The aim of this marvellous new edition is to provide the reader with, firstly, the means of finding a half-remembered phrase or reference. Secondly, examples of what has been said by the famous, th...
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| HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Book Number: 85471 |
Published price: £5.99
Bibliophile price: £1.13
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Nice handy sized small paperback bilingual dictionary from Europe's leading dictionary publisher. This portable reference contains all the words you need for daily use in today's Spanish and Engli...
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| EVE CHIPPING Book Number: 86006 |
Published price: £3.99
Bibliophile price: £1.25
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From the quirky expressions that hold clues to the county's rich past, to the glossary packed with words which bring the local language to life, explore the fascinating county of Gloucestershire. ...
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| GABRIELLE LLORET LINARES Book Number: 86411 |
Published price: $9.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
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Whether for use in business, finance, law, religion, on holiday or at school, Spanish verbs are notoriously tricky with their subjunctives, futures and conditionals, the use of ser and estar plus a...
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| OFFSHOOT Book Number: 86739 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £0.63
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Match the quotes with their modern translation, Sudoku, how will Iago find Desdemona's handkerchief in the maze? Which ones die a tragic death? Answer: Romeo, Macbeth, Brutus, Othello, Hamlet, An...
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| MARTIN PUCHNER Book Number: 86501 |
Published price: $32
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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"A story of letters and paper and rocket ships, of ruthless conquerors and elegant court ladies and middle-class entrepreneurs, of the will to power and the dream of freedom." - Stephen Greenblatt....
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| EDITED BY MICHAEL LEVENTHAL Book Number: 86877 |
Published price: £13.99
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George Orwell said "History is written by the winners." Henry Kissinger "As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the diff...
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| CAROLINE TAGGART Book Number: 87127 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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The famous verbophile has written many book on words over the years and had plenty of opportunity to consider and pontificate on the issues of language, the 'rights' and the 'wrongs', and to form o...
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| DANIEL TAMMET Book Number: 86895 |
Published price: $27
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Amy Tan said of this, "Tammet gives insight ranging from cultural perception and social dominance to the features of Esperanto as a universal language. Most fascinating is Tammet's own astonishing ...
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| LAURA LEE Book Number: 87324 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £1.75
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A one-of-a-kind collection of catchy expressions which have spread like wildfire. There are approximately 7,000 living languages in the world today, and some expressions spread into English and Es...
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| E. M.FORSTER Book Number: 88387 |
Published price: £17.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Virginia Woolf said of this book 'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Informal and talkative, in the spring of 1927 at Trinity College Cambridge, the writer E. M. Forster delivered the Clark Lec...
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| SHANDRA SMITH Book Number: 88631 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £2.25
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From the same series as Scratch & Draw Enchanted Animals code 88630, this all inclusive package reveals full colour artwork beneath sheets of metallic coating. Using the 5" stylus provided, scratc...
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| BILL WOODROW Book Number: 88804 |
Published price: $24.95
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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B is for Mutant? D is for Nostril? Z is for Secret? Bill Woodrow's unique alphabet offers a glimpse into a playful and endlessly inventive artistic mind. Part sketchbook, part riddle, this Royal...
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| JONATHON GREEN Book Number: 89003 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £1.88
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Sub-titled 'The Love-Hate Relationship Between Women and Slang' we learn that there are 2,000 words for 'woman' and every one a put-down. Slang is the ultimate in man-made languages and this is th...
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| DANIEl TAMMET Book Number: 88944 |
Published price: $27
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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From the bestselling author of Born on A Blue Day is a delightful and eclectic exploration of language, and what it can teach us about ourselves and our lives. Why is the name Cleopatra not allowe...
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| AL MACCUISH Book Number: 88952 |
Published price: $19.95
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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A Thames & Hudson art publication illustrated in beautiful, muted colours and retro illustrations by Luciano Lozano, the book is a real pleasure for grown ups although probably designed for childre...
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| J. P. ROMNEY & REBECCA ROMNEY Book Number: 88957 |
Published price: £12.99
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A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers. Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewe...
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| WILLIAM WRAY Book Number: 89843 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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'My advice to those whose eyes have not been opened to the truth - leap from the net and see how immense is the ocean.' Like a wonderful collection of Koan or short Zen sayings blending humour and...
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| AGATHA CHRISTIE Book Number: 89864 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's other great detective, first appeared in December 1927 in a series of short stories published in the Royal Magazine. She would go on to investigate murders in v...
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| AMANDA LEES Book Number: 89968 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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'We crime lovers are voyeurs, but we are also hackers, driven to crack the code. We want to know how and why but we also want to know what we can do to protect ourselves.' The blue line between tr...
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| GYLES BRANDRETH Book Number: 88274 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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This Sunday Times bestseller is a banquet of wickedly witty wordplay. Join the wit and word-meister Gyles Brandreth, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown's Dictionary Cor...
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| CRAIG SHRIVES Book Number: 89146 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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Many people have sound writing skills, but if you talk grammar specifics with them, it may become clear that they have learned grammar only through unstructured lessons. The aim of this entertaini...
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| PETER CORRIGAN Book Number: 89381 |
Published price: £45
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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Many of us as students fell in love with the tidiness of Latin morphology and the exquisite logic of many grammatical constructions. Sometimes the complexities and ambiguities of literary texts in...
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| BARRY MCCREA Book Number: 89384 |
Published price: £43
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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The language of modernist writers like James Joyce and Marcel Proust has been the subject of countless studies over the years, but this well-researched book adds an important dimension. At the begi...
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| FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Book Number: 89719 |
Published price: £9.99
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Edited by H. Ramsden in the Hispanic Texts series from Manchester University Press we are led on a step-by-step journey through the classic golden age play's text as well as through particular biog...
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| TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL WOLFE Book Number: 89773 |
Published price: £20.50
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'Here Phillip, a father, laid down his highest hope: a twelve year old son, Niccolites.' 'This is the tomb of Megistias, Slain by the Medes at Thermopylae. Famous prophet, he knew what was coming....
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| MIKE BROWN & CAROL HARRIS Book Number: 90087 |
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What was life like for ordinary people during World War II? Our picture of the war tends to be dominated by the heroic sacrifices and doomed love affairs seen in films, but life went on in spite o...
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| MICHELLE O'REGAN Book Number: 90156 |
Published price: $12
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'To my dearest friends a toast, a few short words from your humble host. To friendship, fine wine and a laden table and surrender your keys if you don't feel able!' By the 1800s, toasts had become...
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| LIO YEUNG Book Number: 90042 |
Published price: £16.95
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Bold colourful artwork on every page by the award-winning art director and designer, learn the meanings of around 100 names from Aaliyah, the feminine version of Ali meaning 'sublime' in the Arabic...
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| VANESSA BATTERSBY Book Number: 90056 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.25
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The simple joy of receiving a handwritten letter is hard to beat. Letter writing can be calming, almost meditative, helping with issues and becoming wonderful time capsules of memory and meaning. ...
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