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72748 WRITER’S DIGEST CHARACTER NAMING


WORDS


Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.


- Winston Churchill


72922 QUOTABLE DICKENS by Max Maurice


‘When I was left in this way, I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on...’ - Sketches by Boz. Thoughts on human nature, filthy lucre, darker musings, philosophical thoughts and wicked wit: ‘Mr Chadband is a large yellow man with a fat smile and a general


appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.’ - Bleak House. Here is an old curiosity shop of a book that will delight all readers. Pocket sized 160pp. £5.99 NOW £3


73201 IMMORTAL LAST WORDS: History’s Most Memorable Dying Remarks, Deathbed Declarations and


Final Farewells by Terry Breverton The dying words of great statesmen, poets, scientists, novelists and warriors are often cited to capture the spirit of the times or inspire great works and


deeds. But there are also remarks from individuals who did not have such an impact on history, but whose dying words are equally important as they shed light on the nature of the human condition. The 370 entries in this book represent a wide variety of people. They have been garnered from a wide variety of historical sources such as epitaphs on gravestones and monuments, sayings, speeches, obituaries, pamphlets, newspapers and letters and, of course, the reports of those present when the speaker passed away. Arranged in chronological order, each dying remark is accompanied by succinct contextual info about the person concerned, and a brief explanation of the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation. Our favourites are: ‘Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god’. ‘They couldn’t hit an elephant at that distance’, and ‘I told you I was ill’, but you will have to read this compelling book to discover who uttered them! 383 pages with b/w photos of the protagonists. £9.99 NOW £4


72812 CROSSWORDS: MENSA by Philip Carter and Ken Russell


A book deliberately unstructured so that crosswords are in no particular order by either type or difficulty. Solutions are given at the back for those who are driving themselves crazy! The puzzles in this MENSA, the High IQ Society, collection will


stretch your verbal comprehension skills and your general knowledge to the limit. Disturbed teas offer comfort (4). It is hard for the unconverted to grasp why such cryptic messages exercise a hold over so many people. Get hooked with us. 224 page paperback, one puzzle per page. Please note contents same as 72813. £5.99 NOW £3


Signed by the Author


Our Editor Annie met this author at the launch of this much-acclaimed book. (And she was very nice!)


73113 HELEN OF TROY: Goddess, Princess, Whore


by Bettany Hughes Immortalised by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey, Helen of Troy is the mythical perfection of beauty, the woman who left her Greek husband Menelaus for the Trojan Paris, thus causing a major war. She has been portrayed as princess, high priestess, goddess, mother and whore, an agent of both life and


death. Hughes examines literary and artistic portrayals from classical lyrics to flamboyant Romantic canvases. The seventh century historian Isidore identified the rape of Helen (some versions make it a real rape) as one of the 132 defining moments that shaped history. A favourite subject for painters is the myth of Zeuxis, the painter who tried to create a vision of Helen from the combined beauties of five models. Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Berlioz and Tippett are among the numerous creative geniuses who have fallen under her spell. Hughes goes in search of the real Helen among the rich Spartan queens who lived in Bronze Age Greece in the 13th century B.C., examining Bronze Age texts and material remains to build up a picture of what she might have been like, a search linked to the question of what caused the Hittites and Mycenaeans to disappear less than a hundred years after the conjectural date of the Trojan War. A


fascinating, readable study, superbly supported by archaeological evidence from museums around the world. 458pp, maps, timeline, b/w and colour photos. Apologies for sticker. All copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.


£20 NOW £10


SOURCEBOOK by Sherrilyn Kenyon Any novelist will say that good characterisation is vital to the success of any novel, and that begins with the character’s name. Can you ever imagine Harry Potter’s sidekicks being anything other than Ron Weasley and


Hermione Grainger? Firstly a character’s name has to be credible - calling a girl from a Sicilian village Beyoncé is just not going to work. But then the name has to suit the character and also fit with the time and place of the novel; it is not just a matter of sticking a pin in a baby- naming dictionary and hoping for the best. This is a one- of-a-kind naming resource designed specifically with the writer in mind. It includes over 25,000 first names and surnames and their meanings listed by origin, names and surnames from over 45 countries, a reverse look-up of names by meaning, an alphabetical index of names, an explanation of naming practices and historical context for each origin and a list of the top ten names in the US for every year from 1880-2003. Sherrilyn Kenyon, bestselling US author and creator of the hugely popular Dark Hunter series instructs on how to create believable names which will fit your characters and your narrative. Not only that, but she has also been on to some of her friends and there is also a wealth of advice on naming from a wide range of big name authors such as Alexander McCall Smith and Daniel Wallace, as well as the stories behind the names of some of their most memorable characters. An excellent reference. 486pp paperback.


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72965 BIG ELEPHANTS ARE USEFUL: A Compendium of


Mnemonics and Idioms by S. J. Hartland


A mnemonic is a memory aid for difficult spellings, mathematical rules, geographical and historical facts. An idiom is a phrase of expression whose meaning is not logically suggested by the words. Covers the solar system, weather, history, the natural and classical


worlds, mathematics and measurement, signs of the zodiac, geography and much more. Would you be upset if someone said you were ‘a sandwich short of a picnic’? If you want a little traditional wisdom or some cracking new insults, here is a treasure trove of the curious and witty. 144pp. £9.99 NOW £4


73032 TEACH YOURSELF: Speak Italian with


Confidence: 3 CDs by Maria Guarnieri and Federica Sturani


For students of the Italian language of all levels from beginners to Common European Framework Level A2, learn to communicate in simple and routine tasks. This three CD audio course builds your knowledge and understanding


quickly and is based on situations you are most likely to find yourself in while travelling abroad. Learn whenever and wherever you want using this pack - join in, practise and improve your speaking. There is no complicated grammar and it is jargon-free. A super bargain price. £14.99 NOW £6


73208 WORDS OF WISDOM: Philosophy’s Most Important Quotations and Their


23928 DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS: Wordsworth


edited by Connie Robertson The aim of this marvellous new edition is to provide the reader with, firstly, the means of finding a half- remembered phrase or reference. Secondly, examples of what has been said by the famous, the not so famous and the infamous on a particular subject and thirdly, when using the dictionary alphabetically


by author, a representation of statements made by the author or speaker which have become memorable or remarkable. Know them, love them, hate them, inscribe them in books or on buildings, quotations have exercised a particular fascination for humanity. Third edition, freshly revised and updated, it has 13,000 familiar, serious, outrageous, witty and thought-provoking entries. 688pp in paperback. ONLY £4


71546 BUMPER BOOK OF CROSSWORDS


by Arcturus Publishing Chock full of 300 crosswords in fairly large print, one per page in this great value paperback, with 331 solutions - but don’t look unless you need to! For all ages and abilities, a bit of fun to stimulate the old grey matter. Easy and non- cryptic.


£4.99 NOW £2.50


70646 WICKED WIT OF WINSTON CHURCHILL


by Dominique Enright Churchill’s most famous speeches and sayings have passed into history and everyday language, but many of his aphorisms, puns, bons mots and jokes are not public property. Anyone who describes General de Gaulle as looking ‘like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath’ is all right by us, and his definition of golf takes the biscuit: ‘... a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose’. This


unrivalled selection gathers hundreds of his most humorous and wickedest quips. 160 pages with b/ w illustrations. £9.99 NOW £4


71301 DISCOVERING FIRST NAMES: Over 2300 Forenames with


Their Meanings by Stan Jarvis Set out in alphabetical order from Akesh,


meaning lord of the sky in Hindu, Brad, Eloise, Kylie, Leroy, Monica, Olga, Quincy, Tiffany,


Meanings by Gareth Southwell The purpose of this book is to encourage readers to think, and develop a critical response - not to learn philosophy, but to put it into practice. The discipline is not a unified one, and does not really possess an orthodox creed, so the author has tried to do justice to a


wide range of philosophical opinion and hopes that, overall, things balance out. You will find in this compelling compilation not just the stories behind the likes of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Wittgenstein, but also scientists, theologians, psychologists, anthropologists and writers of all sorts. After all, as the author points out, many thinkers lived in a time where what they were doing - physics, psychology, sociology or economics - was still part of philosophy. Find out who said what, and in which circumstances, so that you can then ponder on it and wonder whether it was a fair statement. You might well start by thinking around a statement of Peter Singer’s that ‘…the fact that a being is human, and alive, does not in itself tell us whether it is wrong to take that being’s life’. Tricky! 368 pages with photos of the philosophers concerned. £9.99 NOW £4


72515 1,000 WISEST THINGS EVER SAID by David Pratt


The quotations from Nobel Prize Winners are arranged by achievement, beliefs and ideology, time, life and death, good and evil and human qualities, emotions, human relations, mind, knowledge and learning, arts and culture, places, politics and economics, science and technology, medicine


and health, war and peace and last words. It also includes short biographical sketches of each of the Laureates quoted and a brief history of the Nobel Prize. Astute, witty and poignant by turns. 270 browseworthy pages. Paperback.


£9.99 NOW £3.75


Vaughan, Winston to Zoe and Zuleika - meaning brilliant beauty in Persian. The list is as exhaustive as possible so that it includes not only the older names which have become popular by association, but also modern ‘inventive’ names although they lack the etymological pedigree. Each name is supplemented by interesting or sometimes curious information on their origin. 104pp in paperback.


£5.99 NOW £3


29434 ADVANCED LEARNERS’ DICTIONARY


by Martin H. Manser and Nigel D. Turton Combines the elements of thesaurus, usage guide, lexicon and historical survey in one volume. As well as the usual features of a dictionary, this book includes expository panels, which present a point of usage, the history of a word, the area of


vocabulary or the nuances of a definition. The surprising origins of words and phrases such as “between the devil and the deep blue sea” and the disease named after a shepherd in an Italian poem. 864pp. Paperback. ONLY £4


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72698 90 DAYS TO YOUR NOVEL


by Sarah Domet


If you have 90 days spare, then you can be a novelist. Here is a day-by-day plan for outlining and writing your book. It is about time, energy and discipline to see the project to its finish. If you can commit to the schedule and techniques in the book and invest two or three hours a day for 12


weeks, an outline will appear, characters will take shape, a plot will emerge and scenes will come together to form a story worth reading. Instructions distil the elements of the novel from crafting your outline to developing intriguing characters, motivating insights about writing and a schedule to keep you in the writing zone, focussed and creative. 282pp in large paperback. £16.99 NOW £4


71421 KITCHEN TABLE LINGO by Bill Lucas and Edward Fennell Families around Britain have their own special vocabularies. Whether it’s a slip of the tongue that becomes a permanent part of the family vernacular, or a word invented when all others failed, Kitchen Table Lingo is part of what makes the English language so rich and creative. Here is a collection of hundreds of words, complete with blank spaces, an invitation to add your own, and contributions from Philip Pullman, Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Vine, Meera Syal and many other household names. ‘More testiculating on Newsnight!’ 210pp in paperback with line art. £7.99 NOW £1.75


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