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10th anniversary edition. New entries and citizenship test.
Tangent's biggest selling local book. Perfect gift book for young
and old. Harry Stoke and Vinny Green launched the Dictionary of
Bristle in 2003 to celebrate the remarkable success of their
thatbebristle website a hilarious spoof news page with a passing
similarity to the Bristol Evening Post's thisisbristol website. At
its peak, the website enjoyed astonishing success and the
Dictionary was originally published to help readers understand the
nuances of the Bristolian words and phrases. The website is long
gone, but the Dictionary goes from strength to strength and sells
particularly strongly at Christmas through supermarkets as well as
the traditional booktrade and in gift shops. Tangent Books acquired
the Dictionary from Broadcast books in 2009 and released a third
edition. The updated fourth edition celebrates the 10th anniversary
of the original Dictionary. The book is now accepted worldwide as
the authoritative guide to speaking Bristolian and has been
responsible for a whole new generation of Bristolians reclaiming
their distinctive dialect. Within two years of the publication of
the Dictionary of Bristle the Bristolian word 'lush' was added to
the Oxford English Dictionary.
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up,
journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir,
she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage,
finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed
house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan
from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely
on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of
every messy night out. Glittering, with wit and insight, heart and
humour, this is a book about the struggles of early adulthood in
all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty.
For anyone who loved St Trinian's - old or new - or loves a cozy
mystery on a grand estate filled with rather 'interesting'
characters. Gemma Lamb is ready for an uneventful term at St
Bride's, she's had enough of dastardly deeds and sinister
strangers. However, she's barely back at school before: Unlucky in
love Oriana is sneaking around at odd hours Handsome Joe is keeping
secrets Militant Mavis feels a scandal is brewing It's all a bit
much, so when a stranger appears, Gemma thinks she's had enough.
But this stranger isn't so sinister, instead he looks rather too
familiar. If Gemma can't get him away from the school the whispers
and scandal his presence could unleash may just close St Bride's
doors for good. Gemma's joined forces with her colleagues to save
the school in the past, but this time she's going to have to do it
on her own . . .
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