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Hardcover:

9781844567812 | Gardners Books, October 1, 2009, cover price $12.25

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Product Description: It was a moment of mad impulse when John Humphrys decided to buy a semi-derelict cottage and a building site on a plot of land overlooking the Aegean. A few minutes' gazing out over the most glorious bay he had ever seen was all it took to persuade him...read more

Hardcover:

9780340978825 | Hodder & Stoughton, September 10, 2009, cover price $31.45 | About this edition: It was a moment of mad impulse when John Humphrys decided to buy a semi-derelict cottage and a building site on a plot of land overlooking the Aegean.

Hardcover:

9781848941878 | Gardners Books, September 6, 2007, cover price $12.25

Tackles the big question through the author's own personal journey and argues that doubt is the only credible belief.

Hardcover:

9780340951262 | Hodder & Stoughton, September 6, 2007, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Tackles the big question through the author's own personal journey and argues that doubt is the only credible belief.

Takes a provocative look at phrases and expressions in use to expose the often hidden attitudes that lie behind them - from the schoolroom to the boardroom, from Westminster to the weather forecast. This book questions our assumptions, punctures our illusions, and illuminates the way we live.

Paperback:

9780340923764 | Reprint edition (Hodder & Stoughton, June 1, 2007), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Takes a provocative look at phrases and expressions in use to expose the often hidden attitudes that lie behind them - from the schoolroom to the boardroom, from Westminster to the weather forecast.

Following his bestselling Lost for Words', the ever-popular John Humphrys takes a provocative look at the hidden attitudes that lie behind so many of our current phrases and expressions. Read by the author.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781844563159 | Hodder & Stoughton, November 2, 2006, cover price $32.10 | About this edition: Following his bestselling Lost for Words', the ever-popular John Humphrys takes a provocative look at the hidden attitudes that lie behind so many of our current phrases and expressions.

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Product Description: In the spirit of the bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is an informative and highly amusing little book about bad English, full of examples of the incorrect grammar and usage that often pervades modern radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, classroom discussions and political speeches...read more
By James Cochrane and John Humphrys (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9781402203312 | Sourcebooks Inc, March 30, 2005, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In the spirit of the bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is an informative and highly amusing little book about bad English, full of examples of the incorrect grammar and usage that often pervades modern radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, classroom discussions and political speeches.

Deals with the common outrage at the misuse of the English language and sets out the campaign for real English.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781840329315 | Hodder & Stoughton, November 8, 2004, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Deals with the common outrage at the misuse of the English language and sets out the campaign for real English.

Hardcover:

9780007415571 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $33.85

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