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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.
| AL MACCUISH Book Number: 88952 |
Published price: $19.95
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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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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| GYLES BRANDRETH Book Number: 88274 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £2.25
Product format: Paperback
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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: £3.00
Product format: Hardback
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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: £4.00
Product format: Paperback
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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: £3.50
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: £3.00
Product format: Paperback
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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: £2.50
Product format: Paperback
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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: £0.75
Product format: Paperback
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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: £1.25
Product format: Hardback
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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: £2.50
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: £1.25
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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| SUSANNA GEOGHEGAN & M. POWELL Book Number: 90296 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £0.88
Product format: Hardback
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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: 90307 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £1.38
Product format: Paperback
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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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| KEVIN MCCANN & TOM GREEN Book Number: 89922 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
Product format: Paperback
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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: £1.25
Product format: Paperback
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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: £1.50
Product format: Paperback
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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: £2.50
Product format: Paperback
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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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| Unknown Book Number: 90689 |
Published price: £32.97
Bibliophile price: £16.50
Product format: Paperback
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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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| KEVIN LIPPERT Book Number: 90319 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £1.75
Product format: Hardback
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Quotes, quips, and words of wisdom, the book summons us to an intimate gathering of novelists, memoirists, grammarians, journalists and teachers. It is a veritable glittering cocktail party of ven...
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| WALTER MOSLEY Book Number: 90445 |
Published price: $23
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Hardback
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Fiction is one of the few constructive human activities in which we have the potential to make something from almost nothing. Every word is important - it is about your characters, the world they ...
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| ANA BREMON Book Number: 90490 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Unknown
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A lovely big box set with free audio app, the first item is the DK Phrasebook with nearly 1000 essential words and phrases and the second the entire 15 minute language course to hear the audio for ...
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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
Product format: Paperback
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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
Product format: Hardback
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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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Product format: Hardback
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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: £6.50
Product format: Paperback
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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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