10th anniversary edition. New entries & citizenship test. Tangent`s biggest selling local book. Perfect gift book for young & old. Harry Stoke & Vinny Green launched the Dictionary of Bristle in 2003 to celebrate the remarkable success of their thatbebristle website a hilarious spoof news page with a passing similarity to the Bristol Evening Post`s thisisbristol website. At its peak, the website enjoyed astonishing success & the Dictionary was originally published to help readers understand the nuances of the Bristolian words & phrases. The website is long gone, but the Dictionary goes from strength to strength & sells particularly strongly at Christmas through supermarkets as well as the traditional booktrade & in gift shops. Tangent Books acquired the Dictionary from Broadcast books in 2009 & released a third edition. The updated fourth edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the original Dictionary. The book is now accepted worldwide as the authoritative guide to speaking Bristolian & has been responsible for a whole new generation of Bristolians reclaiming their distinctive dialect. Within two years of the publication of the Dictionary of Bristle the Bristolian word `lush` was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. ...

This is an exhaustive compendium of some 1, 000 words & phrases from twenty different languages that are used in English. This is a language which is rich in foreign infusions, thanks to the many invasions that have enlivened the history of our isl&. As a result, what we know today as English is far from the language of the Angles. From the time of Shakespeare down to the present day, the English language has always profited from foreign contacts resulting in contributions from across the globe. This dictionary presents a selection of those foreign terms now used in English but that are neither on the one hand Anglicized nor on the other merely pedantic. Never again need you rack your brain for the mot juste. Simply consult this dictionary to discover the perfect piece de resistance to dazzle your audience. ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK. ” Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher, in the best way.” (In Style). Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko & grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother & daughter. When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep, she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt & humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance & the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way, she might still be alive today. ...

A retro 1945 book about the Royal Air Force`s slang words & phrases. Over the first half of the 20th Century, the servicemen & women of the Royal Air Force created their own rich language. This remarkable book by lexicographer Eric Partridge records the meaning behind a fascinating list of slang, from Canteen Cowboys (ladies` men) to Half-Pint Heroes (boasters). The Dictionary of RAF Slang is a funny & fascinating insight into a time gone by. ...

The child narrator of A Different Dog can`t speak
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Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population & culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks &, every now & then, a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence. This is portrait of a world in ferment, a decaying empire shaken by war & revolution, & a life-long search for meaning. ...

Singapore
- a trading post where different lives jostle & mix. It is 1927, & three young people are starting to question whether
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Singapore is a trading post where different lives jostle & mix. It is 1927, & three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; ten-year-old Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; &, Raj, fresh off the boat from India, wants only to work hard & become a successful businessman. As the years pass, & the Second World War sweeps through the east, with the Japanese occupying Singapore, the three are thrown together in unexpected ways, & tested to breaking point. Richly evocative, ”A Different Sky” paints a scintillating panorama of thirty tumultuous years in Singapore`s history through the passions & struggles of characters the reader will find it hard to forget. ...

4, 000 miles of unpredictable ocean 500 Mars bars 124 days of physical exertion 3 Guinness World Records set 1 incredible journey. On 1 April 2009, twenty-three-year-old Sarah Outen embarked on an ambitious solo voyage across the Indian Ocean in her rowing boat, Dippers. Powered by the grief of the sudden loss of her father & the determination to live life to the full, Sarah & her tiny boat successfully negotiated wild ocean storms, unexpected encounters with whales & the continuous threat of being capsized by passing container ships. Along the way she broke two oars & lost 20kg of bodyweight before arriving in Mauritius. She became the first woman & the youngest person to row solo across the Indian Ocean. Life-affirming, funny & poignant, Sarah`s salty tale of courage & endurance will inspire the taste of adventure in everyone. ...

Since her days in the orphanage, Latha has been a companion & servant to Thara, a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her trip to the hill country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose, Latha has known she was destined for a better life. For now, she must watch silently as Thara receives all the luxuries Latha is denied, consoled only by the rose-scented soap stolen from the bathroom of her master`s house. Years & miles away, Biso, a desperate young mother, flees from her murderous husb&, taking her children with her to the remote hills. As Biso & Latha journey towards their separate fates, struggling to hold on to their independence, each will betray the people they love, changing the course of their lives for ever. ”A Disobedient Girl” is an epic, heartbreaking novel about the linked destinies of two women, set against the backdrop of beautiful, politically turbulent Sri Lanka. ...