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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.
| TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL WOLFE Book Number: 89773 |
Published price: £20.50
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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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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| SUSANNA GEOGHEGAN & M. POWELL Book Number: 90314 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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A logolept is another term for a word nerd and epeolatry is a noun meaning the worship of words! What's the difference between a bibliophile and a bibliophagist? A bibliophile loves the book, the...
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| JUDITH WATTS & MIRREN BAXTER Book Number: 89923 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £1.25
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Another in the famous Teach Yourself series, the book is packed with ideas that will drive you and the confidence you might be lacking to write well about sex. That is difficult even for the most ...
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| Unknown Book Number: 90689 |
Published price: £32.97
Bibliophile price: £16.50
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Set contains Get Started In Writing For Children, Get Started In Self-Publishing and Get Started In Writing Erotic Fiction. Buy all three in the Teach Yourself series and save even more.
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| RYAN MCARTHUR Book Number: 90851 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £1.90
Product format: Hardback
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Find motivation through the wisdom of Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, Edward Young and Victor Hugo. Artist and designer Ryan McArthur has put together beautiful images to accompany pensive thoughts incl...
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| LANE GREENE Book Number: 90893 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Hardback
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Can you decipher your 'who's from your 'whom's? Language, according to Lane Greene, is a wild animal like a wolf which has adapted for its conditions and needs but some want to tame it and make it ...
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| CAROLINE TAGGART Book Number: 90989 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback
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Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn't. In Roman times, blocks of texts were c...
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| MARK FORSYTH Book Number: 91008 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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From the author of the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Etymologicon, Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such...
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| CAROLINE TAGGART Book Number: 91028 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Do you know if consanguineous means 'agreeable', 'closely related' or 'easy to see'? Is gallimaufry 'a cold wind', 'a jumble' or 'a swear word'? What does louche mean? 'Disreputable', 'flea ridde...
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| QUARTO PUBLISHING Book Number: 90589 |
Bibliophile price:
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Son-of-a-gun (British sea slang), sour grapes (the allusion is to the fable of the fox who tried to reach some grapes hanging up on a vine), from A-1 (origin Lloyds of London) and Abracadabra, the ...
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| ALEX FOWKES Book Number: 91421 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Sub-titled 'Unique Typographic Design In Sketchbooks, In Print and On Location Around the Globe', learn what typography can say about a brand or product. The book showcases the work of major inter...
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| ERICA TIGNE Book Number: 91432 |
Bibliophile price:
£5.00
Product format: Hardback
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With so many electronic devices around us like your mobile phone and iPad, often your handwriting can look like a chicken scratch. If you want to look at your to-do list, take three extra minutes ...
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| HAMLYN Book Number: 91450 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £4.25
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Straw hat (6), Squander (5), Lease (4), In the open air (8). Fuel your passion for puzzling with a wide variety of fun clues and over 300 crosswords for hours of entertainment. Bumper value paper...
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| KEVIN SKINNER Book Number: 91474 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Crack those cryptic clues! Verbophiles can work their way through double straight clues, double meaning clues, word exchange clues, homophone clues and anagrams. Here are all the clever crossword...
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| MARK NYMAN Book Number: 91480 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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Play like a pro with two-letter wonder words such as QI, ZO, JA and XU. There are tables of the 124 two-letter words playable in Scrabble and the 1,341 three-letter words. Cool on and off the Scra...
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| ERWIN BRECHER Book Number: 91488 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.75
Product format: Hardback
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By the renowned puzzle expert who studied physics, economic engineering and worked in aircraft design during World War Two, Mensa Erwin Brecher PhD wrote many puzzle books and here is his tantalisi...
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| GABRIEL MANDEL KHAN Book Number: 91322 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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The exquisite calligraphy and letters of the Arabic alphabet are explained in this thorough and illuminating guide. Writing styles and the alphabet presents an understanding of a culture and civil...
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| EDITED BY JANET BROWNE Book Number: 91389 |
Published price: £22
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Hardback
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In this chunky volume Darwin's biographer has collected hundreds of quotations from the writings of the great evolutionary scientist, illuminating both his public and private life. The first secti...
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| EDITED BY MAURIZIO VIROLI Book Number: 91390 |
Published price: £22
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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Machiavelli's great work of political theory The Prince is one of the most influential European books, the product of his experience of the courts of the Renaissance including the Vatican, the Holy...
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| MARTIN PUCHNER Book Number: 91414 |
Published price: $32
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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The subject of this enjoyable book is the story of story-making, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh, the first written masterpiece, discovered in 1842 in a roomful of tablets in cuneiform writing ...
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| CHRIS PALING Book Number: 91597 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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'Despite the unpromising financial situation, after twenty-odd years trying to make a living on and around Grub Street - several novels published to grudgingly respectful reviews and negligible sal...
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| COMPILED BY KAREN DOLBY Book Number: 91619 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Princess Margaret courted controversy and was fêted and photographed, praised and vilified in equal measure. The younger sister of our present Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret was a renowned beauty wh...
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| DESIGNED BY MARK THOMSON Book Number: 91002 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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2016 up-to-date edition with new words and phrases as they have emerged and been accepted into the English language and the precise context of their uses and even subtle changes in definition are e...
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| JAMES ELLIS & KAYTIE NORMAN Book Number: 91724 |
Published price: $15.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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During his 72 years and more than 150 films, John Wayne imparted a seemingly endless amount of advice, wisdom and good old-fashioned common sense to his audiences. That wealth of knowledge has bee...
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| CAROLINE TAGGART Book Number: 92076 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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Sub-titled 'Test and Build Your Vocabulary', the Sunday Times bestselling author encourages us to put our linguistic skills to the test in her witty and engaging book. Do you know if consanguineou...
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| JOSFINA DEL CARMEN & A. PECK Book Number: 92079 |
Published price: £18.95
Bibliophile price: £10.50
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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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| ROBIN DAVID Book Number: 92085 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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76 letter cards with points denoting their value, nine vowel cards, 18 challenge cards with clarification and reward, six reference cards and one solo card comprises this rather classy Osprey famil...
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| PROFESSOR MIKE HAINZINGER Book Number: 92109 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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For complete beginners in the excellent Teach Yourself series, like a "rockstar" teacher Mike is 100% new and breaks with traditional Mandarin Chinese curricula. Using his witty sense of humour an...
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| MARY WELLESLEY Book Number: 92183 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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From the St. Cuthbert Gospel to the Luttrell Psalter, from Beowulf to Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, and the Paston Letters, Mary Wellesley tells us about the authors...
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| THOMAS FORREST KELLY Book Number: 92034 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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Scrolls from the Middle Ages is a beautifully illustrated, full-colour guide which celebrates the paper phenomenon, highlights the most interesting items in the period and represent the people who ...
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