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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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| NATALIDITA NINGTHOUKHONGJAM Book Number: 86310 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £1.25
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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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| JOSEPHINE HART Book Number: 86348 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Set your hearts on fire with some of the most extraordinary poetry literature has known. From Lord Byron, Christina Rossetti and Percy Bysshe Shelley, to John Milton, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bis...
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| GABRIELLE LLORET LINARES Book Number: 86411 |
Published price: $9.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
Product format: Hardback
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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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| TOM WOLFE Book Number: 86485 |
Published price: $26
Bibliophile price: £1.63
Product format: Hardback
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"Language in all its forms advanced man far beyond the boundaries of natural selection, allowing him to think abstractly and plan ahead; measure things and record measurements for later; comprehend...
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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
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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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
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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| 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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| BENJAMIN JONES Book Number: 87382 |
Published price: £4.99
Bibliophile price: £1.63
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Welsh English? Wenglish? Anglo-Welsh? Cambrian English? A Welsh 'Accent'? The English of Wales has over the last century at least been branded with many names and the grammar of Welsh English ha...
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| EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER TINKER Book Number: 87596 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £1.00
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'My declaring myself gay wasn't a story; them finding me out would have been.' - Simon Callow. Emotional, amusing and inspiring, this is a collection of quotes by and about gay, lesbian, transgende...
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| KLUTZ Book Number: 87921 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Foil, colour and stencil your way to 'Be real not perfect', 'Dream big wish hard', 'Don't be another fish in the sea be a mermaid' or 'Today will be...' Create 11 quote art prints with seven full-...
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| JOHN SIMPSON Book Number: 88056 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, first time discounted. John Simpson was a key figure in the editorial team that rescued the Oxford English Dictionary from obsolescence and ensured its ongoing releva...
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| COMPILED BY ANDREA KIRK ASSAF Book Number: 87418 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £1.88
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Pope Francis is the first successor of St Peter from the New World and here is a beautiful and handy format book of 250 of his quotes of inspiration. The wonderful words of wisdom to contemplate t...
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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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| SYLVIA GOULDING Book Number: 88803 |
Published price: £12.95
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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A unique visual approach which makes learning fun and easy about making introductions, eating and drinking, making arrangements, travel and getting around, accommodation, shopping, work and study, ...
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| BILL WOODROW Book Number: 88804 |
Published price: $24.95
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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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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| SINCLAIR MCKAY Book Number: 88809 |
Published price: $16.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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When scouring the population for codebreakers, Bletchley Park recruiters devised various ingenious mind twisters to assess the puzzle-solving capacity of these applicants. Hidden codes, cryptic cr...
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| ANGELES GAVIRA ET AL Book Number: 88835 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
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Ballet and theatre to contact sports, roads to social media, an array of dinners and foods, drinks and café life, delicatessen, breads, olive, hazelnut and sesame oil, vinegars, shopping, emergency...
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| MICHAEL CURL Book Number: 88199 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £2.13
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Tuck into a feast of 100 crosswords focussing on foods and wines, nutrition, cooking methods, great chefs and wine makers, famous cookery and wine writers, styles of food and types of wine. In or ...
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| PHILIP GOODEN Book Number: 88991 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £1.88
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A brilliant investigation into the most controversial and provocative words in the English language in a way that is both anecdotal and analytical. Combining intrigue and scandal, the book delves ...
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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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| RACHEL BEST & JEAN CHRISTOPHE Book Number: 89104 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
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Fluent Français without the faux pas! The French (the frogs) and the English (les rosbifs) have been frenemies for centuries. Packed with quizzes, glossaries and interesting details on how phrase...
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| ALEX RAWLINGS Book Number: 83445 |
Published price: £13.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
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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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| DANIEl TAMMET Book Number: 88944 |
Published price: $27
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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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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