34 Words


imperative, including seven simple tenses. Sample sentences are given for contextual reference. The introduction discusses the infinitive form, subject pronouns and subject-verb agreement, tense, aspect, mood and voice, and a description of negation. To test comprehension there is a brief verb-practice section and the verbs themselves are followed by a series of quick verb reference charts. Beautifully laid out large softback published by Dover. 518pp. £10.99 NOW £5


75078 SYMBOLS: A Universal Language


by Joseph Piercy Why is the Bluetooth symbol named after a Danish king in need of dental work? Why does an anatomically incorrect drawing of a pump in our chest signify love? We are so used to the signs we take for granted every day, such as the road markings that (usually) keep us safe, the skull and crossbones on


bottles of bleach and the shamrock on all things Irish, that we rarely question the role such symbols have played in shaping our understanding of the world. Here, a Master of Philosophy provides a clear, concise and witty explanation of the origins and meanings of cultural and political symbols from the ancient Indian cross whose name ‘swastika’ means ‘well-being’, to the configuration of the Olympic rings, revealing en route how an insurance company accidentally invented the psychedelic ‘smiley’ and how an unknown American athlete gave his name to the octothorpe AKA hash tag. 224 pages with b/w drawings and photographs. £12.99 NOW £5


74757 WRITER’S


WORKOUT: 366 Tips, Tasks and Techniques from Your Writing Career Coach by Christina Katz


Here are tips, exercises and insider strategies galore to help you gradually hone your skills, strength and confidence over a whole year until you can be sure of creating a writing career that is made to last. Learn how to make your writing as


powerful as possible, pitch and sell your work at every opportunity, overcome rejection to come back better than ever, promote your unique writing style and catch an audience, balance your creative life with the demands of your daily tasks and, most importantly, how to generate the inspiration and stamina to take charge of your writing life every day. 373 paperback pages with online download of a FREE motivational poster.


£15.99 NOW £4.50


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. Stephen King believed that first drafts should take no more than three months to complete. So what’s the trick? 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, strategies for gaining support from your family and friends, motivating insights about writing and a schedule to keep you in the writing zone, focussed and creative. 282pp, paperback. £16.99 NOW £3


74758 WRITING NEWS FOR


LOCAL RADIO by Simon Ford


Clear and convenient, this description of what to aim for when writing news for local radio offers down-to-earth guidance in a challenging and competitive profession. Authentic, real-life examples such as the Danielle Beccan shooting are cited throughout. The book starts with


the basics of English grammar, with tips on using pronouns in order to be impartial, and hints on structuring your story. There is a list of the top ten techniques, such as addressing a single listener, keeping sentences short and limiting the number of ideas in one sentence. The book then goes on to tackle pitfalls such as Americanisms, legal language and disputed pronunciations, and discusses the use of slang. 301 paperback pages, illus.


£9.99 NOW £2.50


73492 A CERTAIN JE NE SAIS QUOI: Words We Pinched from Other Languages by Chloe Rhodes


English has its origins in scores of different languages of which the main ones are Anglo-Saxon and French. Through the language of the Norman conquest many Latin words entered the language and in the days of the British empire new vocabulary came in from all over the globe. Wearing dungarees (Hindi) might be a faux pas on a social occasion, and pyjamas (Persian) would be regarded as outré unless specified on the invitation. Over 200 fascinating examples. 176pp. £9.99 NOW £3


73764 ALL FOR LOVE: A Romantic Anthology by Laura Stoddart


The charming colour artworks of Laura Stoddart are tiny, exquisite pictures, witty and original which complement the words of great writers throughout the ages. The raptures of love are counterbalanced by the rueful and the comic - Wodehouse chumps chase unsuitable girls, Dorothy Parker makes acidic comments about men, and scores of writers from Ancient Greece to the present day supply nuggets of wisdom and humour. 84pp, softback.


£7.99 NOW £2.50


ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74


74613 CLICHES: Avoid Them Like the Plague!


by Nigel Fountain Often useful but overworked catchphrases, worn-out or hackneyed sayings (between a rock and a hard place), pointless phrases which often conceal weak arguments (to be honest), here are technical terms used out of context (collateral damage) and long winded space fillers (at this moment in time)


and many others, to avoid like the plague! With the best will in the world, with all (due) respect, draw a line under, brain dump, here are phrases to grate and make you groan. Understand where they came from and how they caught on. 192pp. Cartoons. £9.99 NOW £4.75


73539 AMBROSE BIERCE’S WRITE IT RIGHT by Jan Freeman


The Celebrated Cynic’s Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st Century Readers. In 1909, Ambrose Bierce published several hundred of his pet peeves in a book called: Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. To mark the 100th anniversary of its publication, an editor and life-long usage geek has investigated where Bierce’s rules and taboos originated, how they have weathered the century since the blacklist and what lies ahead. ‘To demean’ does not at all mean ‘belittle’ but ‘to comport oneself’ and, when we talk of ‘jeopardizing our chances’ what we really need to use is ‘jeopardy our chances!’ 229 pages. £20 NOW £5


74772 TOOLS OF SCREENWRITING by David


Howard and Edward Mabley A writer’s guide to the craft and elements of the screenplay, this is the best primer on the craft. Addressing questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, characterisation, setting, imagery and other topics as they apply to filmmaking, this is a practical, comprehensive guide based on experience and what has worked in


classic screenplays from Citizen Cane and Rashomon to Chinatown and Sex, Lies and Videotape. All good screenplays share central principles and essential elements of cinematic storytelling and this book has been the definitive text for screenwriters since the 1970s. David Howard has revised and updated Mabley’s classic guide. Also looks at the future and advertising. 298pp in paperback.


£12 NOW £5.50


73634 ARE WE LIVE? The Funniest Bloopers from TV and Radio by Marion Appleby A warning accompanies this hilarious and sometimes obscene collection of fluffs, farts and fisticuffs from both radio and TV. Here is the punctilious McDonald Hobley introducing a British politician as Sir Stifford Crapps, and there an Antique Roadshow’s ceramic expert describing a piece of Rictoria Vagina porcelain. Featuring a whole host of tongue-tied presenters and unruly celebrity guests, wardrobe malfunctions to evil autocues, not to mention MPs fiddling erection expenses. 189 paperback pages, illus.


£7.99 NOW £3.50


73989 QUOTABLE PAUL JOHNSON A Topical Compilation of His Wit, Wisdom and Satire


edited by Marlin, Rabatin and Higgins 2000 pithy and hard-hitting Johnson excerpts, edited and arranged alphabetically by topic and with a cross- referenced Index. Since the publication of ‘Modern Times’ in 1983, Paul Johnson is regarded as one of the world’s most distinguished popular historian journalists. His incisive commentaries on the continuing dehumanisation of man, the arts, social sciences and on the idealistic movements and intellectual fads of the day are exceptional. The ideal interview, like good prose, should be a sheet of perfect glass, through which the person under scrutiny is seen clear and whole. 417 page paperback.


$15 NOW £4.50


74453 DICTIONARY OF CLICHES 2ND EDITION Meanings and Origins of Thousands


of Terms and Expressions by Christine Ammer


With almost 4,000 entries, this unrivalled reference work must surely be the largest, most comprehensive and most entertaining of its kind. The revised and expanded second edition contains approximately 500 new entries, including many from the business world such as fork over, go belly-up and twenty-four/seven. There are also expressions from the military, like body count and mickey mouse and from popular culture, including yada yada yada, whatever and talk the talk/walk the walk. Each entry includes the meaning of the cliché, its present-day usage, its development and history and its origin and early uses, with examples. 534 pages.


£12.99 NOW £4.50


74730 179 WAYS TO SAVE A NOVEL


by Peter Selgin


Is your fiction writing in peril? The 179 meditations in this book are grouped under six headings - Substance, Structure, Style, Symbol, Myth and Metaphor, Soul and Other Matters. Dip into the book at random when in need of non-specific advice, inspiration or criticism, or read it straight through for a deeper examination of the


writing life. Latinisms, ‘crap’ words and phrases, writerly verbs, it is a nuts and bolts guide to avoiding the ho-hum syndrome. Index, 282pp in paperback. £13.99 NOW £4


SCOTTISH INTEREST


Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.


- Winston Churchill


73329 WILLIE GAVIN, CROFTER MAN


by David Kerr Cameron Sub-titled ‘A Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle’, here is the second part of a classic trilogy of rural life in Scotland’s North-east Lowlands. Through the eyes of Willie Gavin we experience the hardships of those who struggled to work a barren and inhospitable landscape, as well as the joys brought by


events such as weddings and festivals. Kerr Cameron paints a beautiful lyrical picture of how the crofter took on his thankless task of ‘stitching the quilt of the landscape’ with his beautiful and sensitive observation of the crofter’s work. 250pp in paperback, glossary and photos.


£8.99 NOW £2.50


72619 LOCHS: Exploring Scotland’s


Freshwater Lochs by Julian Holland


Each of these 30 lochs has its own unique personality: some are famed for their fish, others are rich in flora and fauna. This book gives readers an insight into their geology, historical background, myths, legends and natural history.


Supported by location maps, the text includes details on walks, cycle rides, boat trips, angling, water sports, tourist info and accommodation. From remote Loch Coruisk, set in the Black Cuillins of Skye, via the prison of Mary Queen of Scots in the middle of Loch Leven, to the sinister depths of Loch Morar and the famous monster of Loch Ness, here is a loch to suit every taste. 160 pages 22cm by 30cm, beautiful photos and maps.


£19.99 NOW £7


73321 BACK O’ THE HILL: Highland Yesterdays


by John G. Gibson After years of living in Gaelic- speaking places in Cape Breton and north-eastern Nova Scotia in Canada, when he revisits the Craigag of his childhood, the author notices that language and consciousness are linked and that, even though he writes in English, thoughts and knowledge of the


Gaelic world are an important platform for considering the world. There are not many historical records to refer to but what the author has to offer is ‘an outsider’s imagining of an older consciousness, clad in knowledge gained mostly in and from Scotland and the Maritimes of Canada’. 271 paperback pages, photos. £14.99 NOW £3


73395 VICTORIAN SCOTLAND by James Crawford, Lesley Ferguson and Kristina Watson


For the very first time, RCAHMS - the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - is showcasing images from its National Collection. From the pioneering work of photographers including John Forbes White, William Donaldson Clark, Thomas Annan and Harry Bedford Lemere, to never- before-seen excerpts from private family albums, this volume is a window on the lives of the generation who literally changed the world. There were huge advances in every field, from science and philosophy to industry, agriculture and architecture. But, for every grand museum or gothic-revival country house, tenements and slums rose in their thousands. Many of the photos are impressively unique, viz the one in which a curious cast of characters is arranged on Ailsa Craig’s towering gas- powered north foghorn, which was built to support the oil-burning lighthouse designed by Thomas and David Stevenson between 1883 and 1886. 224 pages 30.5cm x 25cm, gorgeously clear b/w photos. £30 NOW £13.50


74251 SCOTTISH MISCELLANY by Jim Hewitson


Jim Hewitson has been a journalist, lobster fisherman, gypsy, author, graveyard grass-cutter, broadcaster and light labourer and many things about Scotland still astound him. Here is a broth of off-cuts from the past, contemporary attitudes, outlandish lists, absurd tables, historical and hysterical trivia and off-the-wall observations. Gems


include a step-by-step guide to raising the clans (fiery cross included), auld Scots tricks to turn yourself invisible or turn yourself into a hare, howto build your own Scottish anthem and a bizarre array of couthy anecdotes. 192pp, illus.


£9.99 NOW £3.50


www.YouTube.com - Type in bibliophilebooks to see our 500+ video book reviews


BIBLIOPHILE BOOKS UNIT 5 DATAPOINT, 6 SOUTH CRESCENT, LONDON E16 4TL TEL: 020 74 74 24 74


Earn up to £20 OFF your book orders!


Due to the success of our Recommend a Freind Scheme, we have decided to


INCREASE THE AWARD TO YOU.


**£2 IF YOUR FRIEND’S FIRST ORDER IS FOR UP TO £10 ** ** £5 IF YOUR FRIEND’S FIRST ORDER IS OVER £10 ** ** £7 IF YOUR FRIEND’S FIRST ORDER IS OVER £15 ** ** £10 IF YOUR FRIEND’S FIRST ORDER IS OVER £20 **


**£15 IF YOUR FRIEND’S FIRST ORDER IS OVER £30** **£20 IF YOUR FRIEND’S FIRST ORDER IS OVER £40**


Please gain the permission of the individual, school or library and remember to include your own name, address and customer number. Welcome them to a book club with no ties, fees or editor’s book-of-the-month to the forgetful!


Help us to cut costs by giving full postcodes. Thanks. Wordsworth £2 Classics 100387 GREAT GATSBY


by F. Scott Fitzgerald 144pp. Paperback.


100541 COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF


SAKI by Hector Hugh Munro 512pp, paperback.


23800 DIARY OF A NOBODY 224pp. Paperback.


59995 TOM SAWYER ABROAD AND TOM


SAWYER DETECTIVE 188 page paperback.


64452 KING SOLOMON’S MINES and ALLAN


QUATERMAIN by H. Rider Haggard Paperback, 496pp.


65528 COMPLETE MAPP & LUCIA: Volume


One by E. F. Benson 632 page paperback.


68844 RAGGED TROUSERED


PHILANTHROPISTS by Robert Tressell Paperback, 619pp.


71178 MATHILDA AND OTHER STORIES


by Mary Shelley Paperback, 422 pages.


71579 THE BHAGAVADGITA translated by Professor Vrinda Navar and


Professor Shanta Tumkur 80 page paperback.


72384 LADY SUSAN AND OTHER WORKS


by Jane Austen Paperback, 359pp.


73727 THE WELL OF LONELINESS


by Radclyffe Hall 414 page paperback.


36690 WASHINGTON SQUARE


by Henry James 176pp. Paperback.


23841 KING LEAR by William Shakespeare 160pp. Paperback.


23762 NORTHANGER ABBEY


by Jane Austen 176pp. Paperback.


10973 HEART OF DARKNESS AND OTHER


STORIES by Joseph Conrad 224pp. Paperback.


24302 RED BADGE OF COURAGE


by Stephen Crane 192pp in paperback.


23814 MAN WHO WOULD BE KING AND


OTHER STORIES by Rudyard Kipling 224pp Paperback


23875 PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY


by Oscar Wilde 192pp. Paperback.


23764 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE


by Jane Austen 272pp. Paperback.


24266 LIFE’S LITTLE IRONIES SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF THOMAS HARDY


by Thomas Hardy 192pp.


Paperback.


100423 LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad 304pp.


Paperback. 23844 MEASURE FOR MEASURE


by William Shakespeare 144 page paperback.


33872 WAVES by Virginia Woolf 304pp.Paperback.


100827 UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE


by Thomas Hardy 160pp. Paperback. 23864 VANITY FAIR


by William M. Thackeray 688pp. Paperback.


23763 PERSUASION by Jane Austen 208pp. Paperback.


100568 MADAME BOVARY


by Gustave Flaubert 304pp. Paperback.


200295 THE ODYSSEY by Homer 512 page paperback.


23773 WUTHERING HEIGHTS


by Emily Brönte 272 page paperback.


www.bibliophilebooks.com


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36