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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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| HENRY YULE Book Number: 60724 |
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Hobson-Jobson is short-hand for the assimilation of foreign words to the sound pattern of the adopting language. Bungalow, pyjamas, verandah, curry, chintz, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are a...
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| LAWRENCE DORFMAN Book Number: 80936 |
Published price: $12.95
Bibliophile price: £0.88
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The "Snark" (a contraction of snide remark, in case you were in a state of Carrollian confusion like us) series of handbooks by Lawrence Dorfman are a delightful collection of the bon mots of the g...
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| MATT POTTER Book Number: 82205 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
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Goodbyes are always hard, but this collection of resignation letters is a witty and at times dangerously analytical example of goodbyes that are seemingly easy to make. Potter categorises such resi...
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| PAUL ANTHONY Book Number: 82691 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
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Wordsmiths will find this unique approach to language completely irresistible, while it is also an accessible way in to the subject of etymology for the uninitiated. 50 different lists bring togeth...
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| COMPILED BY SAMMY LOOKER Book Number: 84315 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £1.00
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"I am enclosing some chapters of one of my tales for your perusal. The various storylines make it a story within a story with further layers of narrative curling ever inwards like a nautilus shell....
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| ALEX RAWLINGS Book Number: 83445 |
Published price: £13.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Each language you speak is part of your life story, defining who you are. Learning a new language is an extremely exciting, endlessly entertaining and stimulating challenge. Whether you are looki...
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| ROSEMARY SASSOON Book Number: 84510 |
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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The exciting possibilities of creating letter forms for any number of craft projects, Christmas decorations, greetings cards, posters or practicing your calligraphic hand, you are going to be encha...
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| RICHARD WILLIAMS Book Number: 84645 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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Since it was first established in 2006, Twitter has become something of a phenomenon in the explosion of popular social media networking sites. Get the lowdown on how it all started, how it works,...
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| STEVEN HELLER & LOUISE FILI Book Number: 85402 |
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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Heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication made up entirely of advertising material produced on glossy paper and dripping with colour. Every single page has a typeface and a design from decorative po...
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| GORDON THORBURN Book Number: 85409 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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Sub-titled 'Why Some Products Will Never Make It in the English-Speaking World', the front cover alone shows actual labels of food and drink like Pee Cola, cock flavoured soup mix (spicy), Shitto h...
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| ARCTURUS PUBLISHING Book Number: 84481 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Battleships, Criss Cross, Number Cruncher, Macho Maze, Superman Sudoku, Code Cracker, Treasure Hunt, Word Searches, expect wily and competitive robust challenges to flex your mental muscles on. Wh...
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| HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Book Number: 85471 |
Published price: £5.99
Bibliophile price: £2.25
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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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| GRAEME DONALD Book Number: 85568 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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Have you ever wondered the connection between the words 'albatross' and 'Alcatraz'? Or 'rhubarb' and 'barbarian'? 'Bandit' or 'Banal', 'Parrot' and 'Wig', 'Village' and 'Villain', 'Explode' and 'Ap...
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| G. BORROW Book Number: 72233 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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Gypsy language is a medley of various Eastern and Western languages - some Arabic, many Persian, some Sclavo-Wallachian, others genuine Sclavomian, modern Greek, Hungarian, English, but only one Fr...
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| DAVID CRYSTAL Book Number: 85845 |
Published price: $22.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Who needs to be able to spell in these days of online spellchecks and predictive spelling? The problem is, as most of us have found to our cost, that the computer gets it wrong, and in fact spelli...
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| COLLINS GEM Book Number: 85654 |
Published price: £4.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
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A tiny travel companion which fits into the palm of your hand, get talking and make the most of your journey with this easy-to-use phrase finder and pronunciation guide. 3,000 word two-way diction...
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| SUN TZU Book Number: 85981 |
Published price: £9.99
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Exquisitely produced, this A5 softback lined notebook has folded endpapers and a red elastic fastener, and each page is decorated with Chinese calligraphy on borders or corners and on every alterna...
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| LOUISE MASKELL Book Number: 85987 |
Published price: £4.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Ever wondered what your grandmother meant when she sent you out for bag o' scrumps? Or maybe she asked you Ow bist sarternun? Don't be home late or she'll have a proper benny! Learn about the Br...
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| ARCTURUS PUBS. & MAKI RYAN Book Number: 86001 |
Published price: £4.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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At the back of (6), taking it easy (8), acquired (3), throbs dully (5) - behind, relaxing, got, aches. 62 non-cryptic crosswords, one per very large page, each decorated, printed in blue with ink,...
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| Unknown Book Number: 86002 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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The work of Sigmund Freud marked the beginning of modern psychiatry, and all newer forms of psychotherapy have either developed out of psychoanalysis or in critical opposition to it. In addition t...
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| KATE SANDERSON Book Number: 86004 |
Published price: £4.99
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After a night on the swally would your heid be loupin' and would you be fair scunnered if you were skint? Starting with a dictionary, develop a very special new Scottish vocabulary from Glasgow. ...
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| EVE CHIPPING Book Number: 86006 |
Published price: £3.99
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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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| GEORG CAPELLANUS Book Number: 86124 |
Published price: £9.99
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Who says Latin is a dead language? Learn to speak it like a native with this up-to-date conversational guide containing hundreds of useful phrases from breakfast to dinner and work days to holiday...
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| ARCTURUS PUBLISHING Book Number: 86128 |
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A beautiful blue eyed tabby kitten in a colour photograph graces the front cover of this super new paperback, packed with 130 word search puzzles - meow! Find 18 words on themes like dances, occup...
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| RACHEL FARMER Book Number: 86274 |
Published price: £27.99
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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In the excellent Teach Yourself trusted learning series, this beginner level course encourages you to understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases. In just TEN DAYS gain...
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| ILLUS BY MOHAMMAD ANWAR Book Number: 86309 |
Published price: £10.99
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A rather glamorous and well designed lined notebook of 126 pages with Ex Libris for your name, address, telephone, fax and e-mail with endpapers decorated with a facsimile of the Anglo-Saxon poem T...
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| NATALIDITA NINGTHOUKHONGJAM Book Number: 86310 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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An exquisitely decorated 124 page lined notebook with excerpts, brief précis and illustrations from favourite characters from English literature for children over the years including Aladdin, Olive...
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| ANDREW PETTEGREE Book Number: 86141 |
Published price: £24.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Sub-titled 'How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into A Center Of Publishing, Made Himself The Most Famous Man In Europe - And Started The Protestant Reformation'. Martin Luther's life as ...
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| ANN PATTY Book Number: 86158 |
Published price: £20.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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Latin is no ordinary language and Ann Patty is no ordinary writer. As she wrestles with the mysteries of Ovid and Virgil, the millennia fall away and the ancient world comes brilliantly to life to...
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