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‘Different to any other branch of the military,

‘Different to any other branch of the military, the submarine service is thus home to some of the most coarse and ingenious phrases in the Royal Navy’ - former Royal Navy submariner Richard Humphreys on his selection for #ADictionaryofNavalSlang

For centuries the sailors of the Royal Navy have been famous for their colourful language. Trapped aboard leaky ships and creaking vessels for months, sometimes years, on end, the crews developed a peculiar language all of their own.

Veteran sailor Gerald O’Driscoll celebrated the Royal Navy's heydey and preserved its unique language in this hilarious and fascinating collection.

Taking the reader from 'Acting green' all the way to 'Water-rat', A Dictionary of Naval Slang is a treasury of naval argot, jargon, lingo and cant, and a window on the lost world of living on the high seas.

First published in 1943, this modern gift edition comes with a foreword by author and former Royal Navy submariner Richard Humphreys.

Available to pre-order now. Link in bio 🔝 Publishing 4 November 2021.

#navalslang #jackspeak #dictionary #royalnavy #miitarybooks #christmasgift #christmasgiftguide #booksforchristmas #jargon #lingo #cant #language #hardback #submariners #giftbook #sailors #veteran

OTHER PEOPLE MANAGE - DON’T THEY? Proofs are i

OTHER PEOPLE MANAGE - DON’T THEY?

Proofs are in of Ellen Hawley’s #OtherPeopleManage, a novel of great wisdom but light touch about love, loss and family - and how to survive them all.

‘The most extraordinary literary discovery of recent years’ @rebeccagray1981

Publishing March 22. Available on @netgalley now.

#fiction #bookproof #bookstagram #igreads #spring22 #booklover #1970s #newbooks #preorder #netgalley #mustread #womenscoffeehouse #thedivorcediet #openline #ellenhawley #tripsheets #literary #literaryfiction

Finished copies of @skullhotel’s #Autobibliograp

Finished copies of @skullhotel’s #Autobibliography have arrived and we are in love with this striking cover.

In #Autobibliography #RobDoyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books - from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bolano and Svetlana Alexievich - as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading, and of a lifetime of books.

Provocative, intelligent and funny, it is a brilliant introduction to a personal canon by one of the most original and exciting writers around. It is a book about books, a book about reading, and a book about a writer. It is an autobibliography.

Publishing 28 October. Available for pre-order. Link in bio.

#nonfiction #bookstagram #igreads #bookcover #booksaboutbooks #reading #booklover #octoberreads #lifetime #yearofreading #literarylover #literaturelover #literature

Depending on whom you’ve asked, you may have hea

Depending on whom you’ve asked, you may have heard that we are living in the best, most prosperous time in human history.

You may also have heard that we are living through the worst and most dangerous time.

You may not know which side to believe. What you do know is that you can’t seem to keep up.

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. Available now.

#evolution #bookstagram #igreads #septemberreads #nonfiction #empower #selfimprovement #sciencebased #biology #survival #evolutionarybiology #betterlife #humanhistory #modernhuman #heatherheying #bretweinstein

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