Weekend, 6-7 February 2010
Playing with Words
It will come as no surprise to those who know me that I love playing with words. My dictionary is falling apart and decorated with Post-It notes of words that would make great titles, names, or just ones I love the sound or shape of. Looking up anything always takes me longer than I expected because I get very easily side-tracked. I collect weird meanings and derivations of unusual words and phrases, many of which I've included in these posts.
But it's not just unusual words that fascinate me. I love common words with unusual meanings, or slight misspellings that change everything. (Only recently I was sent an email imploring me to sign a partition.) When I started making a note of some words that caught my eye for this post, I quickly filled pages of notes, and then had to force myself to stop. Here are just a few of my favourites, in no particular order.
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Large-print version of first-ever Charlie Fox thriller,
Killer Instinct, is now available from ISIS Publishing (Ulverscroft).
ISBN: 978-0-7531-8570-4
Early Titles in Large Print and Audio
Libraries and reading groups have welcomed the news that the early Charlie Fox titles are scheduled to appear in large print and audio formats. ISIS Publishing (Ulverscroft) have just launched a large-print edition of the first-ever Charlie Fox thriller, Killer Instinct. This opening novel in the series traces Charlie Fox's roots in the northwest UK town where she began teaching self-defence to women.
ISIS will publish the second of Charlie Fox's UK-based adventures − Riot Act − later this year. Their list already includes large-print versions of Second Shot and Third Strike.
Second Shot and Third Strike are already available in audio format from BBC Publications, who also now plan to publish all four early books in the Charlie Fox series: Killer Instinct, Riot Act, Hard Knocks and Road Kill.