Dictionaries of quotations
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Do you speak football?
£12.99Do you speak football?
To speak football is to speak a language of a thousand tongues. In this new and revised global glossary of football words and phrases, discover the rich, quirky and joyously creative language used by fans, commentators and players across the world. From placing a shot ‘where the spiders nest’ in Spain, to what it means to use your ‘chocolate leg’ in the Netherlands, via ‘Anglican’ – a phrase adopted by Czechs to describe a disputed goal – and the now legendary ‘it’s coming home’, this comprehensively researched book entertains and informs in equal measure.
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Jane Austen
£9.99Jane Austen
‘Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my Morals corrupted.’ Drawing together fifty quotations from Jane Austen’s letters and novels with vibrant illustrations which illuminate everyday aspects of life in the Georgian era, this beautifully produced volume is the perfect gift for Janeites everywhere.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
£4.00Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
‘It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself’ Wilde’s celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English – and his own genius.
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