Gift
Love Voltaire Us Apart
Julia Edelman
Fucking Apostrophes
Simon Griffin
Bad Girls Throughout History
Ann Shen
HB $22.99
What would Kant's sexts look like?
How would Jean-Paul Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir break up? What
would Confucius think of Tinder?
Comedy writer Julia Edelman's New
Yorker article 'Excerpts from
Philosophers’ Breakup Letters' was a
viral hit in 2015. From that same font
of wisdom comes a hilarious
relationship guide with a
philosophical edge, brought to life
with charming illustrations from Hallie
Bateman.
HB $16.99
Apostrophes are a f'ing pain. The rules
about how to use them are
complicated, and have evolved
haphazardly. Originally written as
advice by a copywriter for
designers—wont to insert and
remove apostrophes at will, for visual
effect—this is a light-hearted, pocketsized guide to getting the f'ing things
right. Elegantly produced, this is the
perfect gift for any pedant, as well as
an indispensable guide in all our
moments of grammar-related
frustration.
HB $37.99
Bad Girls Throughout History is a
vibrantly illustrated volume featuring
100 women who were bad in the best
sense of the word: they challenged
the status quo and changed the rules
for all who followed. Gorgeously
illustrated, the collection features bad
girls from a range of places, eras,
ethnicities, and fields—including
Aphra Behn, Sojourner Truth, Ada
Lovelace, Marie Curie, Joan Jett and
many more.
Scorn
Matthew Parris
The Word Detective
John Simpson
HB $24.99
There's no pleasure like a perfect putdown. So here is a selection of the
funniest, sharpest, rudest and most
devastating insults in history, from
ancient Roman graffiti to the
battlefields of Twitter. Encompassing
literature, art, politics, showbiz,
marriage, gender, nationality and
religion, this collection is the perfect
source for all insults, whether you're
searching for an elegant riposte, the
rudest polite letter ever written, or a
brutal verbal sledgehammer.
PB $29.99
Language is always changing. No one
knows where it is going but the best
way to future-cast is to look at the
past. John Simpson animates for us a
tradition of researching and editing,
showing us both the technical
lexicography needed to understand a
word, and the careful poetry needed
to construct its definition. He
challenges both the idea that
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