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	WRITING YOUR SELF (Paperback) Author: John Killick & Myra Schneider Published by: Continuum Ref No: m1012 If you want to explore personal material in your writing, you will almost certainly find that writing your self is not the same as writing your life. Writing episodes from your lif… more £16.99	Add to cart


	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… more £9.99	Add to cart


	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… more £9.99	Add to cart


	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 … more £13.99	Add to cart


	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 … more £8.99	Add to cart