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There are 24 books in this booklist - they are listed in order of year of publication.
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The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, £20.00 (hardback, 2017) ISBN 9780241253588
Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O'Connor and A.K. Thompson (Editors), £18.95 (paperback, 2016) ISBN 9781849352420
Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric by John Martineau (Editor), £14.99 (hardback, 2016) ISBN 9781907155185
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, £9.99 (paperback, 2016) ISBN 9780241967874
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal, £12.99 (hardback, 2015) ISBN 9781781253502
Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous by Marco Deseriis, £20.00 (paperback, 2015) ISBN 9780816694877
Uncommon Ground: A Word-Lover's Guide to the British Landscape by Dominick Tyler, £16.99 (hardback, 2015) ISBN 9781783350483
An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns by Chloe Rhodes, £9.99 (hardback, 2014) ISBN 9781782433088
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth, £12.99 (hardback, 2012) ISBN 9781848314153
I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary, £9.99 (paperback, 2012) ISBN 9780061710292
One for Sorrow: A Book of Old-Fashioned Lore by Chloe Rhodes, £9.99 (hardback, 2011) ISBN 9781843177005
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth, £12.99 (hardback, 2011) ISBN 9781848313071
A Little Book of Language by David Crystal, £8.99 (paperback, 2011) ISBN 9780300170825
Unmentionables: From Family Jewels to Friendly Fire - What We Say Instead of What We Mean by Ralph Keyes, £8.99 (paperback, 2011) ISBN 9781848542075
Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad Have Changed the English Language by Fred Halliday, £12.99 (paperback, 2010) ISBN 9781848850316
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings, £8.99 (paperback, 2009) ISBN 9780719564550
Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy by Jeffrey Feldman, £8.00 (paperback, 2009) ISBN 9780978843151
Slang: The People's Poetry by Michael Adams, £12.99 (hardback, 2008) ISBN 9780195314632
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson, £7.99 (paperback, 2008) ISBN 9780007197903
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? by Deborah Cameron, £7.99 (paperback, 2008) ISBN 9780199550999
Understanding Spelling by Olivia O'Sullivan & Anne Thomas, £16.99 (paperback, 2007) ISBN 0415419883
An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions by Ian Stuart-Hamilton, £13.99 (paperback, 2007) ISBN 1843105187
Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language by Kate Burridge, £12.99 (paperback, 2004) ISBN 9780521548328
Scouse International: The Liverpool Dialect in Five Languages by Fritz Spiegl, £2.49 (paperback, 2001) ISBN 0901367370