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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: £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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| Unknown Book Number: 86002 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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The work of Sigmund Freud marked the beginning of modern psychiatry, and all newer forms of psychotherapy have either developed out of psychoanalysis or in critical opposition to it. In addition t...
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| EVE CHIPPING Book Number: 86006 |
Published price: £3.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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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: £2.50
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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: £6.00
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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: £3.00
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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: £1.25
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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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| LAUREN COLLINS Book Number: 86600 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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When Lauren Collins met a Frenchman at a party one night in London, she had no idea that she would wake up to find herself married to him, living in Geneva. When the newly married couple relocates...
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| TOM WOLFE Book Number: 86485 |
Published price: $26
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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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: £6.00
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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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| BRYAN KOZLOWSKI Book Number: 86852 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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Forget your fanteegs and roam at a foot-pace through the twisty alleyways of Victorian London using distinctly Dickensian words. It is a super literary romp through Charles Dickens's finest quips,...
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| EDITED BY MICHAEL LEVENTHAL Book Number: 86877 |
Published price: £13.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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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: £4.00
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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: £4.00
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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: £3.50
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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: £3.25
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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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| STAN KNIGHT Book Number: 87577 |
Published price: £39.95
Bibliophile price: £15.00
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Forty classic typefaces are featured in this beautiful book which will be of absorbing interest to both art historians and modern designers. Each font has a double spread which shows the font at or...
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| EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER TINKER Book Number: 87596 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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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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| PETER BOWLER Book Number: 87597 |
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Peter Bowler is responsible for three volumes of words for the superior person, published in 1979, 1992 and 2001 and here in one volume for the first time are all 1,000-plus entries gathered togeth...
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| JASON ZWEIG Book Number: 87902 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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The great American satirist Ambrose Bierce assembled his masterpiece 'The Devil's Dictionary' and was a ferocious enemy of euphemism, hypocrisy and muddleheaded thinking. It was finally published ...
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| KLUTZ Book Number: 87921 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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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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| GAELLE GRAHAM & J. ARRAGON Book Number: 87972 |
Published price: £100
Bibliophile price: £22.50
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A heavyweight quality box set which brings together three Teach Yourself international language bestselling courses in one huge package, along with online material and reference. Number one is Com...
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| JOHN SIMPSON Book Number: 88056 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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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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| TONY SEDDON Book Number: 87801 |
Published price: $29.95
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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Can you recognise your Selva, a blackletter based on medieval calligraphy (2012) from your Geometric Sans Serif Futura (1927-1930)? Examining letters from metal type to open type, here is a journe...
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| COMPILED BY ANDREA KIRK ASSAF Book Number: 87418 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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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: £6.00
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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: £5.00
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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: £6.50
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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: £9.00
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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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