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Martin Puchner The Written WorldFrom clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet.From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter.This is the true story of literature — of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history. The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web are usually considered the major influences on the way we share stories. Less well known is the…
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Per Linell The Written Language Bias in Linguistics ENLinguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and present day linguistics and other language sciences. In this book, this point is argued with rich and convincing…
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Shaun Levin The Writing Notebook: FoodThe only way to write a book is to write it. For writers and foodies of all levels, The Writing Notebook is both guide and workspace. It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book...
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John Warner The Writers PracticeAfter a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom experience and the most persuasive research ...
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Huw Lewis-Jones The Writers MapMaps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many ...
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Primo Levi The Wrench EN'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is about the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the…
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Mary Watson The Wren HuntEvery winter, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. The boys who haunt her are judges, powerful and frightening pursuers, who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an augur, their sworn enemy, the game would turn deadly. But Wren is on the hunt, too. Sent undercover as an intern to the Harkness Foundation – enemy headquarters – her family's survival rests…
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Michael Robotham The WreckageIn London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent boyfriend but wakes next morning to find that he's been set up and robbed. As he tracks down the thieves, he discovers the boyfriend's tortured body and learns that powerful men are looking for the girl. What did Holly Knight steal that is so important to them? Meanwhile in Baghdad, the bank robbery capital of the world, billions of dollars in…
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John Connolly The Wrath of AngelsIn the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies. No such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, ...
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John Connolly The Wrath of Angels ENIn the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies. No such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil. Now a battle is about to commence between those who want the list to remain secret and those who believe…
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Renee Ahdieh The Wrath and the Dawn ENA sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and…
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David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven The Worst-Case Scenario Survival HandbookDanger! It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Cyberbullies. Sinkholes. From wresting an alligator to evading drones to landing a plane if the pilot passes out, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help with expert, illustrated, ...
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James Patterson The Worst Years of My Life ENRafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca. Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the…
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Jill Murphy, Jill Murphy (ilustrácie) The Worst WitchThe Worst Witch written and illustrated by Jill Murphy is reissued with an exciting TV tie-in cover to accompany the new CBBC series in Spring 2017. The highly anticipated CBBC series stars Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) as Mildred, Clare Higgins...
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Jill Murphy, Jill Murphy (ilustrácie) The Worst WitchHang on to your broomstick for a gorgeous colour paperback edition of The Worst Witch! Written and illustrated by Jill Murphy when she was only sixteen, disaster-prone Mildred Hubble - the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy - has been casting...
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Jill Murphy The Worst Witch ENThe Worst Witch written and illustrated by Jill Murphy is reissued with exciting new branding and format. The Worst Witch is the first in the bestselling children's series by Jill Murphy. Hold on to your broomstick for magical mayhem! Jill Murphy's much-loved classic The Worst Witch is the original story of life at a magical boarding school, perfect for readers aged 5 - 9 years. Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss…
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Jane Bussmann The Worst Date Ever ENWhen scriptwriter Jane Bussmann (South Park, The Fast Show, Brass Eye and Smack the Pony) moved to Hollywood, it was supposed to be the start of something better. But a day job interviewing Paris, Britney and Co. left her trapped in the Golden Age of Stupid. Then she saw a photograph of John Prendergast in Vanity Fair. His day job was ending war. He was also extremely attractive. Jane 'may have inferred she was a…
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Gemma Correll The Worrier's Guide to LifeIf you're floundering in life, striking out in love, struggling to pay the rent, and worried about it all - you're in luck! World Champion Worrier and Expert Insomniac Gemma Correll is here to assure you that it could be much, much worse...
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Coralie Bickford-Smith The Worm and the BirdDeep below the earth, Worm dreams of having more space. There's not much room down there. Above, Bird waits, through sun and rain and wind. As the day goes on, will they both find what they are looking for? From the author of The Fox and the Star, this is a book about searching and hoping, and how the smallest moment can be beautiful.
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Coralie Bickford-Smith The Worm and the BirdThis is the story of a worm in the earth, a bird in the trees, and the joy to be found in life's smallest moments, from the award-winning creator of The Fox and the Star.
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Chris Maynard, Rhian Mckay The World’s Stupidest Last Words ENPeople say the stupidest things, especially, it would seem, when they’ve no time to make up for it by saying something sensible. This collection features scores of last gasps including, ‘Either this wallpaper goes or I do’ (Oscar Wilde), ‘Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel’ (George Appel, sitting in the electric chair), and ‘Die, my dear doctor? That’s the last thing I shall do’ (Lord Palmerston).
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Agatha Christie The World’s Favourite ENA boxed set of the three books that have been confirmed in a popular vote as the World’s Favourite Agatha Christie novels. In a worldwide poll to mark the Queen of Crime’s 125th birthday on 15 September 2015, three books stood out as clear favourites amongst Christie fans past and present. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie’s 1939 standalone novel, was voted the World’s Favourite Christie, collecting 21% of…
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Lois Sherr Dubin The Worldwide History of Beads ENSince its first publication in 1987 as ‘The History of Beads’, this book has become the world’s definitive guide for bead lovers, collectors and scholars.
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Stan Boshouwers, Erik Bär The Worlds of Wonder : Experience design for curious peopleExperience Design, the enterprise of creating immersive worlds around people seems to be the biggest star in todays marketing firmament. No other medium is more promising in connecting people to stories, places and ideas...
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