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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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| MAJIC CREATIVE Book Number: 82377 |
Published price: $7.95
Bibliophile price: £0.75
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A cheeky loo book of the Bard's famous lines considered from a rather unusual perspective. Rethink your Shakespeare over and over again as you sit on your own royal throne. Consider the curious s...
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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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| D. B. C. PIERRE Book Number: 83748 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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Sub-titled 'A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out of It' this brilliantly funny book is about writing fiction and navigating the trickiness of the whole occupation. '...Scenes like this where cha...
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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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| ALBERTO BARRERA-VIDAL Book Number: 85318 |
Published price: £18.95
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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Madre Mia! Now this is special, a huge big white box containing four CDs with playing time 240 minutes, a 239 page softback course book and a big fold out A4 prompt card, double-sided Table of Gra...
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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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| JANE SUTCLIFFE & JOHN SHELLEY Book Number: 85076 |
Published price: $17.95
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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Hurry! Excitement! Amazement! These three words were made famous by William Shakespeare, Amazement being used in nine of his plays. This colourful guide takes the turn of phrase that Shakespeare en...
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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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| SUSIE DENT Book Number: 85326 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Famous from Channel Four TV's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Susie Dent is the resident word expert in Dictionary Corner. She casts her perceptive eye at all the tribes around us, ...
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| DAVID SACKS Book Number: 85541 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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A superb source-book for anyone interested in design, typography, fonts, signage, calligraphy, art or those who just love looking at and learning about the formation of letters. Arranged alphabetic...
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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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| M. A. ATWOOD Book Number: 85574 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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Published in 1850, this facsimile edition of 2016 has been carefully scanned by our friends at The Lost Library in Glastonbury. The book is 'a dissertation on the more celebrated of the alchemical...
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| WILLIAM COLLINS Book Number: 85716 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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A self-educated mill worker, William Collins published his first book in 1819 and founded a flourishing publishing house still alive today, HarperCollins. In 1971 lexicographer Colin Smith set a n...
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| DAVID CRYSTAL Book Number: 85845 |
Published price: $22.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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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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| DES MACHALE Book Number: 85298 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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'To avoid dandruff falling on your shoulders, step nimbly to one side.' - George Burns. 'I have difficulty in avoiding the persistent attentions of ladies of the street. It's a case of the tail d...
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| COLLINS GEM Book Number: 85654 |
Published price: £4.99
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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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| IGLOO BOOKS Book Number: 85664 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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21 words to find under categories like Airport, Famous Authors, The Rolling Stones, Words with Double Vowels, Detective Programmes on TV, Ways to Travel, Military Life and more. Tackle these super...
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| EDITED BY JO WILSON Book Number: 85684 |
Published price: £6.99
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Conflict about iron takes the biscuit (5) - wafer. A bargain from Kentish Town (4) - Deal. Challenging and infinitely rewarding, this collection of cleverly crafted brainteasers will keep you ent...
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| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS Book Number: 85797 |
Published price: £25.95
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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A quality heavyweight dictionary which ushers in a new era in Chinese lexicography. The first strictly alphabetically ordered and Pinyin computerized dictionary, it offers the simplest and quickest...
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| SUN TZU Book Number: 85981 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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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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