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Would you be bewildered if someone described you as radgy? • Do you know how to recognise a tittamatorter? • And would you understand if someone called you a culchie? • How to Talk Like a Local gathers together hundreds of words from all over the country and digs down to uncover their origins. From dardledumdue, which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through forkin robbins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, and provides a fascinating insight into the history of the English language • If you're intrigued by colourful words and phrases, if you're interested in how English is really spoken, or if you simply want to find out a bit more about the development of our language, How to Talk Like a Local is irresistible - and enlightening - reading

Helen Russell is an expert on the pursuit of happiness. In How to Be Sad she combines her powerful personal story with surprising research and warm advice to reveal the secret of finding joy: allowing sadness to enrich your life and relationships • Timely and essential, this book is about how we can better look after ourselves and each other, simply by getting smarter about sadness

Driving is the most dangerous thing each of us does on a daily basis - and yet the average learner receives just eighteen hours' training - less than a Starbucks barista • In this inspirational, fully illustrated, highly entertaining book, former Top Gear star Ben Collins uses his super-charged experience of racing, stunt-work and cutting-edge scientific knowledge to tell you all of the things you didn't learn on your test - and in the process will make your driving safer, more economical and a lot more enjoyable • The skills described in How to Drive, from skid control to gear changes that are as smooth as a cashmere codpiece, have been honed on racing tracks by the greatest drivers in the world. This is the stuff your instructor missed, your dad forgot and your mates pretend to know

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong • This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's a book for everyone • If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis • Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger

Have I told you I'm vegan yet? • Who is this book for? • It’s for vegans, people who want to know about vegans, vegetarians who dabble in the dark arts of soya milk, meat-reducers and full carnivores looking to take the piss out of vegans • What's in this book? • Answers to questions like: 'What is a vegan, wait, I don't eat gluten, am I a vegan?!'; pie charts to show how much conversation time with non-vegans will focus on how you're getting your protein; useful recipes and advice (such as how to work on your smugface); inspirational(ish) quotes and much more • What isn’t in this book? • Arguments for or against veganism; it’s obvious that you should be vegan and here is how to do it • How to Vegan is the hilarious new book from the infographic genius Stephen Wildish, author of How to Swear and How to Adult

A companion piece to the captivating memoir Giving Up the Ghost by the Man Booker-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood • This sharp, funny collection of stories drawn from life begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out • In 'King Billy is a Gentleman', the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. 'Curved Is the Line of Beauty' is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent

Забавный подарок для любителей кошек во всем мире: беззаботное руководство по самопомощи, которое поможет вам жить так, как ваша кошка • Позвольте Вашей кошке быть Вашим жизненным тренером • Беспокоятся ли кошки о своей пенсии? Нет. Берутся ли кошки за работу, которую они не хотят выполнять? Как будто! Неужели кошки суетливо мечутся по комнате, когда им больше хотелось бы вылизывать лапы и смотреть в окно? Пожалуйста • Кошки свободны. Они спокойны, наблюдательны, мудры, элегантны, харизматичны и горды. На самом деле, кошки нашли не что иное, как секрет того, как мы все должны жить, к какому бы виду мы ни принадлежали! И в этой книге Стефан Гарнье покажет вам, чему он научился за пятнадцать лет пристального наблюдения за своей кошкой, и научит вас всем способам, с помощью которых вы тоже можете применять секреты кошек в своей собственной жизни - на работе, дома и со своими друзьями

Follow the easy steps to grandmaster greatness.From the opening move to checkmate, this book for children aged 8-13 will help you to play like a champion by mastering chess tactics and strategies.With plenty of master tips and cool 3-D images, How To Play Chess is a chess book for kids that also offers a perfect general introduction to chess for beginners. Start with basic chess techniques, and move up to more difficult challenges, guided step-by-step the whole way. How To Play Chess even includes a handy press-out chessboard and pieces to get you practising straight away.This book explains the history of chess, the rules, the pieces, how to attack and defend, and the best ways to solve the toughest of chess challenges.Learn chess the fun way and add firepower to your chess strategies with How To Play Chess: a wonderful companion to the world's most popular game of skill

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