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How to Greet the Queen: And Other Questions of Modern Etiquette by Caroline Taggart
Category: Gifts
Practical and invaluable advice on every aspect of modern etiquette, both royal and everyday. The author, Her Ladyship, guides you through basic good manners in a range of situations, both formal and informal occasions, whether at home or at work or abroad. How to meet and greet The Queen and other roya ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey - English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
Category: Gift Books
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post ______________________ In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses through thousands of years of history to sh ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
Category: Gift Books | Series: I Used to Know That ... Ser.
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post______________________The huge variety of colourful phrases contained in the English language are notoriously varied and, often, notably odd. From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocr ...Show more
I Used to Know That Activity Book: Stuff You Forgot from School by Caroline Taggart
Category: Gifts
From pi and Pythagoras to presidents and popes, prime ministers to prime numbers, literature to litmus tests, there is so much information from our school days that we have forgotten, or only half-remember. Designed to dust-off those cerebral filing cabinets, "The I Used to Know That Activity Book" is a ...Show more
I Used to Know That Stuff You Forgot From School by Caroline Taggart
Category: Non Fiction
This small but mighty collection will trigger your memory with fun facts you learned in school-from adverbs to the Pythagorean Theorem. Witty, engaging, entertaining-a book you'll pick up again and again. Here is a light-hearted and informative reminder of the many things we learned at school that h ...Show more
I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School by Caroline Taggart
Category: Languages and Reference
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; the names of the Bennet sisters in "Pride and Prejudice"; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, "I Used to Know That" will prov ...Show more
I Used to Know That: - Stuff You Forgot From School by Caroline Taggart
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: I Used to Know That ...
A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days. Now available in paperback, this great gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for anyone new to the series, and ...Show more
Improve Your Word Power: Test and Build Your Vocabulary by Caroline Taggart
Category: Languages and Reference
Put your vocabulary skills to the test with this witty and engaging book.Improve Your Word Power is primarily a collection of multiple-choice challenges in which the reader is asked to decide which definition of a given word is correct. But it's actually so much more than that. Each topic is themed - fr ...Show more
Kicking the Bucket at the Drop of a Hat: The Meaning and Origins of Popular Expressions by Caroline Taggart
Category: Languages and Reference
A fascinating collection of the many unusual and vibrant phrases that adorn our language, looking at their origins and meanings. Don't be down in the dumps if you can't cut the mustard when asked the definition of certain phrases - this down-to-earth guide is just the ticket. This collection contains so ...Show more
Misadventures in the English Language by Caroline Taggart
Category: Languages and Reference
Misadventures in the English Language looks at some of the controversial aspects of English usage - grammar, vocabulary and punctuation - and tries to assess what matters and what doesn't. Looking at why it pays to be precise in your punctuation - the hackneyed examples of 'Let's eat Grandma' and 'Eats ...Show more
My Grammar and I Or Should That Be Me? How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart
Category: Reference
For anyone who has ever had a problem with dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those who have no idea what these things even are, My Grammar and I provides all the answers. While taking you on a tour of the English language, through a veritable minefield of rules and conditions for the gram ...Show more
The Accidental Apostrophe: ... And Other Misadventures in Punctuation by Caroline Taggart
Category: Languages and Reference
Caroline Taggart, who has made a name for herself expounding on the subjects of grammar, usage and words generally (and who for decades made her living putting in the commas in other people's work), takes her usual gentle and gently humorous approach to punctuation. She points out what matters and what ...Show more