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The Language Wars Henry Hitchings 9781848542099
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.72The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with... -
Sorry!: The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings 9781250056153
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $38.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250056153Author Henry HitchingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Sorry! The English and Their Manners Henry Hitchings 9781848546677
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this... -
The Secret Life of Words Henry Hitchings 9780719564550
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.19Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from... -
Language Wars: A History of Proper English by Henry Hitchings 9781250013941
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $40.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250013941Author Henry HitchingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World Henry Hitchings 9780719566325
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnson rose to the challenge, turning over the garret of... -
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings 9780312426200
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $32.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426200Author Henry HitchingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings 9780312428563
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $43.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312428563Author Henry HitchingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint -
The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life by Henry Hitchings
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $24.74'Hitchings is extremely good at unravelling Johnson's most bullish assertions . . . lucid and empathetic, scholarly but lively. A model Johnsonian, in fact.' The TimesThe World in Thirty-Eight... -
Henry Hitchcock, 1829-1902. by Multiple Contributors 9781241008215
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241008215Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 42I -
American State Constitutions: A Study of Their Growth. by Henry Hitchcock 9781240098927
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $24.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240098927Author Henry HitchcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint -
The Towers of Ravenswold; Or, Days of Ironside by William Henry Hitchener 9780371194577
Booksplease Price: $39.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371194577Author William Henry HitchenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 430 -
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Ivor: Or, the Sighs of Ulla. a Tragedy [In Five Acts and in Verse]. by William Henry Hitchener 9781241171988
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241171988Author William Henry HitchenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 82 -
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Love in a Desert; A Musical Entertainment in Two Acts [and in Prose]. by William Henry Hitchener 9781241037581
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241037581Author William Henry HitchenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48 -
The Development of the Constitution as Influenced by Chief-Justice Marshall: A Lecture Delivered, March 15, 1889, Before the Political Science Association of the University of Michigan. by Henry Hitchcock 9781240106752
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $24.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240106752Author Henry HitchcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint -
![The Geology of New Hampshire. a Report Comprising the Results of Explorations Ordered by the Legislature, [By] C. H. Hitchcock, State Geologist, J. H. Huntington, Principal Assistant. by Charles Henry Hitchcock 9781241506612](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/7101639/7723388/9781241506612__41622.1741805149.jpg?c=1 "The Geology of New Hampshire. a Report Comprising the Results of Explorations Ordered by the Legislature, [By] C. H. Hitchcock, State Geologist, J. H. Huntington, Principal Assistant. by Charles Henry Hitchcock 9781241506612")
The Geology of New Hampshire. a Report Comprising the Results of Explorations Ordered by the Legislature, [By] C. H. Hitchcock, State Geologist, J. H. Huntington, Principal Assistant. by Charles Henry Hitchcock 9781241506612
RRP: $67.10Booksplease Price: $65.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241506612Author Charles Henry HitchcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 864 -
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The Geology of New Hampshire. a Report Comprising the Results of Explorations Ordered by the Legislature, [By] C. H. Hitchcock, State Geologist, J. H. Huntington, Principal Assistant. by Charles Henry Hitchcock 9781240923274
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240923274Author Charles Henry HitchcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 812 -
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The Geology of New Hampshire. a Report Comprising the Results of Explorations Ordered by the Legislature, [By] C. H. Hitchcock, State Geologist, J. H. Huntington, Principal Assistant. by Charles Henry Hitchcock 9781241519261
RRP: $65.00Booksplease Price: $63.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241519261Author Charles Henry HitchcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 846 -
The British Constitution: First Draft by Guy Browning
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Exactly eight hundred years ago, Magna Carta established the right not to be thrown in the Tower of London for being slightly irritating, which is the closest we've ever got to a written constitution... -
How to Be Normal: A Guide for the Perplexed by Guy Browning
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Normal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact you're probably the most normal of the lot and, let's face it, even... -
Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State by Herbert James Lewis 9780817359157
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.67A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically. While much has been written about the significant... -
Let's Talk: How to Have Better Conversations by Nihal Arthanayake 9781398702240
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Read this fascinating book and you'll become a better listener, a better conversationalist and better company' Adam Kay'A brilliant book on the art of conversation' Matt Haig'A compulsory book for... -
Let's Talk: How to Have Better Conversations Nihal Arthanayake 9781398702226
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $14.93'Read this fascinating book and you'll become a better listener, a better conversationalist and better company' Adam Kay'A brilliant book on the art of conversation' Matt Haig'A compulsory book for... -
Gainsborough: A Portrait James Hamilton 9781474601061
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.98** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded... -
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Gainsborough: A Portrait by James Hamilton 9781474600521 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $16.02** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden 9780750995672
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.31Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded... -
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"Educating Rita" by Willy Russell 9780413767905
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.33Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with... -
Sherman's March to the Sea by John F. Marszalek 9781893114166
Booksplease Price: $29.88After his triumphant capture of Atlanta in the fall of 1864, Union General William T. Sherman mobilized 62,000 of his veteran troops and waged destructive war across Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah... -
The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages by Nicholas Ostler
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never before have... -
Earthquakes in London Mike Bartlett 9781408132821
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and... -
Samuel Johnson: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert 9780230614277
Booksplease Price: $38.68Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and anecdotes, Hibbert delivers intimate... -
Remembrance Day by Rory Mullarkey
Booksplease Price: $26.78Can you be a hero if you fought for Nazi Germany? The Latvians who fought for the Third Reich and halted the Red Army parade as heroes every year through the streets of Riga. As a growing number... -
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: $38.83Booksplease Price: $28.33Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9781909621695
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of... -
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch 9780192806871
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $88.83The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides... -
A Flea in Her Ear by John Mortimer 9781849430869
Booksplease Price: $29.90Eccentric and hillarious, Georges Feydeau's much loved comedy mixes madness, mayhem, fun and frivolity. When the beautiful wife of Victor Chandebise suspects of having an affair, she enlists the help... -
The War for the Tree by M.A. Fitzgerald 9781912031191
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.99Told is the story of an alternate world within a Christmas Tree; a fully realised world, not populated by humans, but by the Tree's ornaments. Power - held by a governing fairy - is handed on to... -
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.28The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary. First he is shipwrecked in a strange land, and finds himself a prisoner of the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. Then he washes up in... -
Longing by William Boyd
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.23All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to...