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There are 29 books in this booklist
£7.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787131866 | ISBN 10: 1787131866
For nasty women everywhere, The Pen is Mightier than the Penis is a feminist quote book celebrating female writers throughout the centuries, from Sappho to Margaret Atwood.
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£12.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786891501 | ISBN 10: 1786891506
The new collection from multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld - the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.
In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it.
- How do you get publ ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785036965 | ISBN 10: 1785036963
Lying on a riverbank on a lazy summer’s afternoon – 23rd June 2016, to be precise – Alice spots a flustered-looking white rabbit called Dave calling for a referendum. Following him down a rabbit-hole, she emerges into a strange new land, where ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785781438 | ISBN 10: 178578143x
Did Charlotte Brontë take opium? Did the Reverend Brontë carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does ‘wuthering’ mean?
Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontës, from the bum ... more
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£6.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785781414 | ISBN 10: 1785781413
Apostrophes are a pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly. Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers – wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect – this is a light ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781907155185 | ISBN 10: 190715518x
The Trivium consists of three liberal arts pertaining to language. Grammar, logic and rhetoric have been studied for over two thousand years as a way of refining both a speaker and their speech. With extra sections on euphonics, poetic meter and form ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857524300 | ISBN 10: 0857524305
‘I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.’
The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett’s unique brand of wit made him both a bestseller and an en ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472150752 | ISBN 10: 1472150759
What if the greatest characters in literary history all carried around smartphones and typed out messages to each other? From the passive-aggressive to the clever, the strange, and the downright inappropriate, magnificent Mallory Ortberg gets to grip ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472121769 | ISBN 10: 1472121767
But the teenager didn't take just one Pringle. He took a selfie of himself pouring a whole tube of them into his mouth, before sending it to his best mate, along with the letters LOL!
The bestselling authors of We're Going on a Bar Hunt and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857864215 | ISBN 10: 0857864211
Are you weary in Brain and Body? Do you desire a Positive Cure for your Pessimism? Do you require Brontë to re-boot your Broken Heart? Do you despair of your Nose? Can Fielding open your Flood Gates? Or Pynchon purge your Paranoia? May we administer ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780224101158 | ISBN 10: 0224101153
William Shakespeare, dad of three, knew a few things about parenting – and there is nothing better than a Shakespeare quote when it comes to having the last word with your kids.
Ever wondered why your baby is crying?
Why your teenager neve ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571321513 | ISBN 10: 0571321518
In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782432562 | ISBN 10: 1782432566
If you can't tell a possessive pronoun from a correlative conjunction, confuse 'disinterested' and 'uninterested' and struggle with the subjunctive, then I Used to Know That: English has the answers. Relearn the essential rules of the English languag ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783350520 | ISBN 10: 1783350520
This is a book that explains the grammar that people really need to know, such as the fact that an apostrophe is the difference between a company that knows its s*** and a company that knows it's s***, or the importance of capital letters to avoid am ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472111029 | ISBN 10: 1472111028
A hilarious and salutary rummage through the perils of the publisher's slushpile. Most publishers keep a 'slushpile' - the stack of unsolicited manuscripts which contains a large percentage of preposterous or frightening book proposals, which might ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781909657212 | ISBN 10: 1909657212
This is Britain rewritten in predictive text. One man and his mobile phone gremlin take on the people, institutions and events that have shaped this country, autocorrecting as they go and uncovering some shocking home truths. So let's honour ou ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847088277 | ISBN 10: 1847088279
These ingenious interviews will amuse, provoke and delight. Veering from the intensely serious to the wildly silly, Dead Interviews grants writers the chance to sit down with their heroes and flex their cerebral muscles, or simply indulge in some boo ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848314153 | ISBN 10: 1848314159
The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them.
Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized.. Pretending to wor ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843176572 | ISBN 10: 1843176572
A runaway hit and Sunday Times bestseller in 2008, My Grammar and I has continued to grow in popularity, becoming the go-to guide for grammar. Repackaged with a fresh jacket design, this much-loved gift title is now available in paperback, for new re ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099505457 | ISBN 10: 0099505452
John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearf ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848542075 | ISBN 10: 1848542070
We say a lot about ourselves by what we don't say. Words and phrases like 'collateral damage', 'wardrobe malfunction', 'vertically challenged', and old favourites like 'unmentionables' (trousers, apparently) or 'lady of the night' - all are ways of n ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849013598 | ISBN 10: 1849013594
More side-splitting errors from schoolchildren in this sequel to the bestselling Must Try Harder.
Norman McGreevy’s illustrated selection of schoolchildren’s struggles with the pitfalls of the English language ranges from hilarious howl ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141047713 | ISBN 10: 0141047712
Perhaps you once asked yourself, ‘What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?’ No doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Den ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141191263 | ISBN 10: 0141191260
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenc ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141038544 | ISBN 10: 0141038543
There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable drivel; ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847170675 | ISBN 10: 1847170676
'I can resist everything except temptation.'
Oscar Wilde is probably the most quoted and quotable man in history. His plays, his novels and his lacerating with had London at his feet. He boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780199210770 | ISBN 10: 0199210772
Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life of its own: it only ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780195312126 | ISBN 10: 0195312120
Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggers as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. Tie your tongue in knots trying to say such sesquipedalian words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Both witt ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905847013 | ISBN 10: 1905847017
Do I have to compare thee with a summer's day? William Shakespeare Your computer may be able to make 1,000,000,000,000 calculations every second, but can it translate basic sentences into other languages without hilariously changing them almost beyon ... more
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