Chomper, donkey, meat, jammer, wench, folds, clown, licker, face, monkey... Unleash your immaturity and skewed sense of humour within and never be left searching for a clever comeback again. A curse word generator that creates x-rated, humorous, and socially unacceptable curse words for any and every situation. Face it, sometimes a standard curse word or expletive just won't do. Whether you're annoyed with your neighbour, agitated with your spouse, or tired of your lazy children, this unique two-flap flipbook of totally uncensored and socially unacceptable phrases will provide endless possibilities for creative and colourful vocabulary. Spiralbound, 128 pages.

The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle had a huge influence on the development of Western philosophy. Born in northern Greece in 384BCE, his father was the physician to the King of Macedonia, and although much of his early life remains a mystery, we know that he went to Athens when he was 17 to study in Plato's Academy where he spent more than two decades under his tutelage. He left the peaceful environment of Assos after a request from King Philip II of Macedon to tutor his son Alexander, later better known as Alexander the Great. When this task came to an end, Aristotle returned to Athens and created his own institution of learning, the Lyceum, where he encouraged his students not only in philosophy but in astronomy, biology, mathematics, medicine, music and rhetoric, and it was there he gave regular lectures and wrote many treatises including Nicomachean Ethics and this book. Public speaking was a critical skill in Ancient Greece whether for politicians or ordinary citizens putting forward their case in courts of law. Aristotle set out to create a guide to help students argue persuasively and at the same time it is a comprehensive study of human emotions and character with rhetoric one of the three branches of philosophy along with logic and dialectic. Brilliantly explained and carefully reasoned, Aristotle created essential guidelines for argument and a prose style that would influence writers for more than two millennia. 252pp in new full price paperback.

Type of tree 'flower' that may hang down from branches like a tail. The huge easy to read crosswords each have an extra clue that when solved will reveal a word or words relating to plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. With approximately 20-24 clues across and down, these easy fun crosswords take inspiration from the scientific research and collections at Kew, home to more than 68,000 plants, from familiar names to the rare and exotic. With solutions to all 73 puzzles, 96 very large pages in softback. New full price.

Salve! Welcome to this collection of more than 100 wonderful wordsearch puzzles designed to give you a light-hearted introduction or revision to Latin, the language of Ancient Rome. Here are greetings, food and drink, the Roman home, at the games, extracts from Caesar's Gallic Wars, architecture and engineering, the Roman fort, medicine, hair and make-up, directions and getting around, telling the time, Roman festivals, slaves and class, personality traits, Herculaneum and Pompeii, Roman religion, meeting and greeting, feelings and opinions. Plus impersonal verbs, irregular and defective verbs, adverbs, prepositions, asking and answering questions, Roman numerals and more. With some basics of Latin grammar, to solve the puzzles just find the Latin words shown in capitals that are hidden within the grid above them. What is fun and challenging is that the words can run in any direction, including diagonally. Solutions to all 104 puzzles which are printed large in the top half of each page. 128pp large softback, new full price publication.

The fun way to learn European Spanish (Castilian) with vocabulary building puzzles and fun wordsearches filled with Spanish trivia such as puzzles about Spanish poets, language, cinema and things to do and see in Madrid. Build up vocabulary and phrases alongside English translations with useful topics such as greetings, numbers and telling the time. Also fun as a refresher course and with pretty decorations on the very large softback pages relating to the topics like air travel, shopping, money and banking, at the museum, the rivers of Spain, around the home, countries, pets, popular culture, the body, food, illnesses and personality traits among the many topics. 128 very large page new softback, line art and solutions to all 104 wordsearches which are printed nice and large across the top half of each page. Full price.

Sub-titled 'Everything You Need to Know About 139 Languages That Don't Really Exist'. Now with artificial intelligence and artificial languages, we look throughout history starting with the Greeks to Grammelot with present and future dialects, languages with their roots on Earth, languages that are a little more out of this world, dystopian languages and full scale literary experiments, how TV sparks language development, Tolkien's secret vice, Klingon and fan fiction. The Voynich manuscript of the 15th century was discovered by a bookseller in 1912 and was written in an unknown language with an unknown script by an unknown author. It depicted unidentified constellations, mysterious plants, bathing women, astrological tables and long pieces of beautiful but incomprehensible text. Linguists and codebreakers have been trying in vain to solve that mystery for over century and since then linguists, cryptologists, occultists and various wannabe geniuses have also tried. If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others. Here Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From the classic constructed languages of Star Trek and Tolkien to (literally) Orwellian Newspeak and pop-culture sensations such as Game of Thrones, The Witcher and The Mandalorian, this is your portal to over a hundred realms and lexicons - and perhaps the starting point to creating your own. 288 pages.

According to Cecil Day-Lewis, the sonnet, the detective story and the blurb are all the most perfect crystallisation of literary form. Veteran Penguin Books blurb writer and editor Louise Willder distils her 25 years' experience and boasts that she has written over 5,000 blurbs in her career. Our editor Annie can certainly top that! Her book concerns our initial impressions of a book - title, strap line, quotes, opening line and cover design which all work together to make us want to pick it up. The second section stays with the bigger picture to consider the blurb's literary history. Has the way we use words to sell books changed over time and when did the earliest blurb appear? Writers have been eliciting words of praise from other writers for hundreds of years and markets have always been crowded. The oldest known printed advert in English is from the 15th century - and it is for a book. What can great writers from Jane Austen to J. D. Salinger and lesser known figures tell us? Which authors really hated blurbs? Then we narrow our focus in on the rules of good copy and the best way to capture something in as few words as possible while still making those words feel fresh and original. How do shape, structure, pace and style work together? Is it ever OK to swear or give away the ending? Yes of course it is! Another section looks at blurb writing from children's books to blockbusters and yet another what happens in our brains when we read a piece of persuasive copy. Can blurbs be sexist? How does copywriting relate to language, culture, screenwriting, fairy tales, advertising and even musicals? This is the outside story of books and some titbits on the eccentrics - gossipy, brilliantly created publishing world which has been the writer's home for over two decades. For all bibliophiles. 351pp of funny, curious and stylish thoughts about books.

Literary friends and foes prove that the pen is truly mightier than the sword. The world's most respected writers reveal their acerbic side of beloved authors who can become brutal critics when writing about their fellow wordsmiths. Curated from letters, essays and reviews, this sometimes stinging, sometimes good natured and always delightful collection will ignite the armchair critic in us all. Edna St Vincent Millay on e.e. cummings: 'Some of the most pompous nonsense I ever let slip to the floor with a wide yawn.' Virginia Woolf on James Joyce: 'A queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.' Evelyn Waugh: 'I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.' And Charlotte Brontë on Jane Austen's Emma: 'She ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs by nothing profound.' Page after page of amusement ending with the quite brilliant Lord Byron on William Wordsworth: 'Turdsworth'. One quote per page, nicely typeset. 144pp.

Designed for ages 8-11 years or indeed aspiring writers of all any age looking for inspiration and guidance for inspiring adjectives, testing your word choices, faces and features, writing about clothes, under the sea, the busy city, the tropical rainforest or putting yourself into the story. And all about writing dialogue and words for feelings and personality. If you want to add some extra magic to your stories, get help with creating characters, setting scenes and opening a wonderful world of words, here is plenty of space to build your own word bank. Big spiral bound hardback with beautiful fun children's designs and borders and robots, animals and characters and plenty of lined space and suggested words decorating every page.

The one and only A-Z Fart Dictionary is a hilarious, illustrated collection of fart definitions whether it's politics, poetry, karaoke, Mardi Gras, Food Network, Jane Austen, love, war, ghosts, family, sports, fashion, Shakespeare, or vegetables, there's a fart in this book for everyone. Examples include "apple fart: a fart that keeps the doctor away," "boomerang fart: a fart which has somehow returned to haunt you," and many, many more. So, readers, the next time you fart, or bear witness to one, take note of your surroundings, purpose, or social inconvenience. Label it, as in this unique volume. Featuring whimsical artwork and all wrapped up in a classy little package, a perfect gag gift and certain to be a hit with anyone who has ever laughed at the sound of breaking wind. 13 x 15.5cm, 160 pages.