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WHO’S AFRAID OF JANE AUSTEN? (Paperback)
Author: Henry Hitchings
Published by: John Murray
Ref No: m1006

You may well have found yourself in a situation where you have had to bluff your way out: you are in a group of people talking about books and, because they know you are a writer, …
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OXFORD DICTIONARY OF HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS (Paperback)
Edited by: Ned Sherrin
Published by: Oxford University Press
Ref No: m1007

‘If you think squash is competitive, you should try flower arrangement.’ That’s a great quote and it is included under ‘sport’ in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, now …
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WHAT MADE THE CROCODILE CRY? (Paperback)
Author: Susie Dent
Published by: Oxford University Press
Ref No: m1008

Susie Dent works with words a great deal and is perhaps best known for her contribution to the Countdown programme. In her work she receives a hefty postbag of questions about the …
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A BETTER PENCIL (Hardback)
Author: Dennis Baron
Published by: Oxford University Press
Ref No: m1009

Dennis Baron is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois and his new book examines the history of writing, from its invention in ancient times through to …
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DR JOHNSON’S RELIQUARY OF REDISCOVERED WORDS (Hardback)
Author: Dr N Johnson
Published by: Square Peg
Ref No: m1010

This Doctor Johnson is Dr Neil Johnson, and he has published scientific articles, books on biomedical subjects, and a series of children’s books. What he has now produced is, in ef…
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BLOOMSBURY DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS (Paperback)
Edited by: Gordon Jarvie
Published by: A&C Black
Ref No: m1011

An idiom is a term that cannot be translated because its meaning does not reflect the meanings of its component words. If we say, for example, that someone is a big fish in a littl…
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