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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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| 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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| 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 |
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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 |
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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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| 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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| GABRIEL MANDEL KHAN Book Number: 91322 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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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: £1.50
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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: £3.50
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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: £1.75
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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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| 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: £3.50
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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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| PROFESSOR MIKE HAINZINGER Book Number: 92109 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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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: £5.00
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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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| W. B. MARSH Book Number: 92148 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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A treasure trove for history buffs, Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us back and forth in history from the time of the Ancient Eg...
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| NEIL BURDESS Book Number: 92203 |
Published price: £14.99
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'The Remarkable Story of Personal Names' is the sub-title of this book that covers not just given names to a child but family names or surnames and social titles Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms and a quick pe...
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| CHILLI BRENER Book Number: 92338 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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'The Queen was very approachable. I felt that if I had met her in the street she would have talked to me, or to anyone for that matter. She seemed to be very interested, and seemed to have an unspo...
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| DAVID RIDDELL Book Number: 92495 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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In the famous Teach Yourself yellow learning series, here is the ultimate guide to becoming an English as a Foreign Language teacher with what to teach in English and how. Now fully revised to inc...
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| CHRIS ANDERSON Book Number: 92496 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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The head of TED has produced in the words of Tim Harford 'The single best book on public speaking I've ever read' in his official TED New York Times bestseller. It is an insider's guide to creatin...
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| Richard Edwards Book Number: 92313 |
Published price: £29.85
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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Poems to grab, tickle and tease the imagination about the cook who made a submarine from prunes, leeks and eggs, and one about a cloud who wanted to rain. 'Loving words clutch crimson roses, rude ...
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| MARK LEIGH Book Number: 92711 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Confused about crypto currency? Flustered about flash mobs? Baffled about BuzzFeed? And what about pop-ups, clickbait, sticky content, phishing, streaming stick, firewall, webinar, meme, troll or...
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| ROMANA LEFEVRE Book Number: 92797 |
Published price: £9.99
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When early humans had something to say, they said it with their hands and by the time history was being recorded, its rude hand gestures were too. In Ancient Rome, the gesture popularly known as t...
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