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The Last Word
Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue
The Last Word
Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue
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Description
Product details
| Published | 01 Nov 2010 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781408804353 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'A sprinkling of delightful nuggets about the uses and abuses of the English language'
Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
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'After reading The Last Word you may feel compelled to tell a "fib" - a poem whose syllables follow the Fibonacci sequence - one of myriad delights in Ben Macintyre's musings on language. Discover the accidental poetry of e-mail spam and the literary joy of peculiar cricketing terms'
The Times Books of the Year
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'Macintyre is simply a splendidly well-read man ... These pieces come up fresh and even wiser, and all the better for being so collated'
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