Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
By: Susie Dent
3.51
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Did you know that... STEALING SOMEONE'S THUNDER is based on a real event; The original FREELA…
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1. The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
By: Mark Forsyth
4.36
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The idiosyncratic, erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of … read more
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"I’ve been too fucking busy, and vice versa."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. It was about a “green great dragon."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
"So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them."-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
2. Round Ireland with a Fridge
By: Tony Hawks
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse still, have you ever tried to win one? In attempting to hit… read more
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3. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more
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4. Parsnips: Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life.
By: Joe Lycett
3.50
Format: None pages,
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5. The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
By: Mark Forsyth
4.15
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Find yourself pretending to work? That's… read more
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6. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
7. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more
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8. Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.14
Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition
Get tucked in to a third bestselling helping of Clarkson's Farm from our favourite wellie-wearing w… read more
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9. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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10. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)
By: Robert Thorogood
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more
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11. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
12. The Escape
By: Ruth Kelly
3.44
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The grander the house. The darker the secrets. From bestselling author Ruth Kelly, The Escape is… read more
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13. Mad Woman
By: Bryony Gordon
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years o… read more
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14. A Song of Me and You
By: Mike Gayle
3.95
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more
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15. A Lesson in Cruelty
By: Harriet Tyce
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
WHAT PRICE WOULD YOU PAY FOR THE PERFECT LIFE? They say you can't always get what you want. But … read more
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16. The Stargazers
By: Harriet Evans
3.90
Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition
Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling author Harriet Evans returns with an unputdownable tale of the infin… read more
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17. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen
By: Peter Kay
4.23
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more
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18. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law
By: Sarah Langford
4.08
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more
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19. Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly
By: Billy Connolly
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-m… read more
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20. Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
By: Susie Dent
3.51
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Did you know that... STEALING SOMEONE'S THUNDER is based on a real event; The original FREELA… read more
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21. Before We Was We: Madness by Madness
By: Mike Barson
4.26
Format: None pages, ebook
New Foreword by Irvine Welsh.In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of s… read more
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