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	SAMUEL JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY (Hardback) Edited by: Jack Lynch Published by: Atlantic Books Ref No: M501 Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary was published in 1755 as a two-volume work running to 2,300 pages. It was the first to focus on common words and it remained England’s definitive dictio… more £19.99	Add to cart


	WILL IN THE WORLD (Hardback) Author: Stephen Greenblatt Published by: Jonathan Cape Ref No: C099 There have been a good many biographies of William Shakespeare, and most of us by now know the basic details of his life. Although did you know, as Stephen Greenblatt points out, t… more £20.00	Add to cart


	OXFORD GUIDE TO PLAIN ENGLISH (Paperback) Author: Martin Cutts Published by: Oxford University Press Ref No: C068 Martin Cutts is research director of the Plain Language Commission, and he believes strongly that anyone with something to say should say it as clearly and simply as they can. In h… more £5.99	Add to cart


	DYNAMIC CHARACTERS (Paperback) Author: Nancy Kress Published by: Writer’s Digest Books Ref No: C025 Successful fiction is about people and what happens to them. Characterisation is the skill of creating your fictional people, and plotting is about what happens to them. The two as… more £12.99	Add to cart


	THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND (Hardback) Author: Nigel Cawthorne Published by: Piatkus Ref No: M517 The law requiring a London taxi driver to carry a bale of hay on the roof of his cab to feed the horse was repealed only in 1976. The cabby, however, is still supposed to ask each … more £9.99	Add to cart


	A NATURAL HISTORY OF LATIN (Hardback) Author: Tore Janson Published by: Oxford University Press Ref No: M519 Latin was, of course, the language of Ancient Rome and its empire. Britain, as we all know, was part of that empire, but when the Romans left here then Latin largely disappeared wi… more £16.99	Add to cart

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