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Jeremy Butterfield
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April 22
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Who my great-grandfather was. Was he an Italian nobleman, as my grandmother claimed?
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Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare
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2008
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Oxford A-Z of English Usage
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2007
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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Harpercollins Spanish Concise Dictionary
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2003
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Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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2015
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Collins Gem Spanish Verb Tables and Grammar
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1995
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Collins Dictionary.
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Collins Easy Learning Spanish Dictionary
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Philosophy of Physics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science 2)
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The Collins Paperback Spanish Dictionary: American Language Edition
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The cultural significance of ladybirds across languages
I’m not sure when I first knew about ladybirds – perhaps as a child of five or six. At that age you’re closer to the ground and so much closer to small creeping things than you’ll ever be again, able to observe them with that goggle-eyed curiosity born of novelty. The age when a lifelong passion for insects first fires up to forge you as an entomologist.
Or not, in my case.
I’m more of the etymologi
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The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Stree:
"Fantastic format and entertaining historical look at myriad versions of the high street.
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The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street:
"I picked up this book after spotting it on display at Hatchards in London, and I’m so glad I did.
It offers a captivating journey through the history of British high streets, tracing their evolution from the 13th century to the present day. The book d" Read more of this review » |
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The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street
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| Put simply, very informative about how our shopping habits have developed and changed from mediaeval times onwards. Chunked into digestible and sensible periods, and richly peppered with entertaining or illuminating contemporary quotations (Pepys, Sm ...more | |
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Can one write a review when only a third of the way through? Well, that's what I'm doing. If only all history were this entertaining. I hope the rest of the book lives up. We get Magellan's voyage of discovery to find a way through to the Pacific from ...more |
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| Classic McDermid, creating three-dimensional characters, esp. Karen Pirie, and, in this case, interweaving three plot lines with immense skill. Not to mention her trademark use of metaphor-rich language and perfect pitch for dialogue. | |
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This was just too horribly gruesome for me. I couldn't really see that the female character was so psychologically damaged she could do all the vile things she did. Cummins writes well - though if I read her using he/she 'stilled' again, I'll scream. ...more |
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This was just too horribly gruesome for me. I couldn't really see that the female character was so psychologically damaged she could do all the vile things she did. Cummins writes well - though if I read her using he/she 'stilled' again, I'll scream. ...more |
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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
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“The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast the civilization that spawned it”
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“Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.”
― Be A Good Human
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