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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 |
Bibliophile price:
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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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| CAROLINE TAGGART Book Number: 87127 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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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
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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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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| BILL WOODROW Book Number: 88804 |
Published price: $24.95
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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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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| AMANDA LEES Book Number: 89968 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Paperback
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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: £8.00
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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: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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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
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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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
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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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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| MICHELLE O'REGAN Book Number: 90156 |
Published price: $12
Bibliophile price: £1.50
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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
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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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: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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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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| SHELLEY KLEIN Book Number: 90324 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
Product format: Hardback
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'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts', Dickens wrote in Oliver Twist, but this book promises the best of the author's wit and wisdom on every single page. Shelle...
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| NORA RAWN & JOHN GRAFTON Book Number: 90226 |
Bibliophile price:
£1.90
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In 'The Critic As Artist', Oscar Wilde declares that the critic's artistic capabilities are as important as those of the artist. His passionate defence of the aesthetics of art criticism is among ...
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| SUSANNA GEOGHEGAN & M. POWELL Book Number: 90296 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £2.25
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English has a reputation for being difficult to learn because its grammar has so many quirks and contradictions. Our book is filled with amuse-bouches about the system and structure of the English...
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| HAMLYN Book Number: 90305 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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Approachable and addictive, polywords have three simple rules: 1. Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of four or more letters, always including the central let...
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| HAMLYN Book Number: 90306 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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A companion to Telegraph GK Quick Crosswords code 90307. For over 90 years the Telegraph's daily puzzle has challenged and entertained millions of readers as they get their daily crossword fix. H...
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| HAMLYN Book Number: 90307 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
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Young horse (4); Billy Bob -; award-winning actor (8); country in Southern Africa (7), Italian city on the River Po (5). 100 General Knowledge crossword puzzles designed to stretch the mind and en...
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| SUSANNA GEOGHEGAN & M. POWELL Book Number: 90314 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback
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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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| TOM MONTELEONE Book Number: 89914 |
Published price: $18.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Big, chunky and thorough guide to bringing out your natural storytelling talent and how to put your ideas to work. Looks at the basics, the right temperament, a sense of humour and a support group...
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| KEVIN MCCANN & TOM GREEN Book Number: 89922 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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There have been more than a few major success stories in self-publishing. John Locke and Amanda Hocking both sold a million copies on Kindle and both went on to sign publishing deals with major pu...
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| JUDITH WATTS & MIRREN BAXTER Book Number: 89923 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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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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| LISA BULLARD Book Number: 89924 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Breathe life into your characters, build a world, structure your story, and from a published author get the low-down and tips on exploring for ideas, reflecting on your readers, developing your wri...
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| SIMON WILSON & JESSICA LACK Book Number: 89957 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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How often have you struggled to detect the "deconstructive illusionism" or "neo-plasticist performativity" of a work of art? The problem is not with the artists, but with the critic, and this soli...
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| DAVID SHARIATMADARI Book Number: 90401 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Do words create thoughts, or is it the other way round? Who decides what a word means? Is it true that language is going down the drain? How do children learn a language? People are entranced by t...
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