Gordon Jarvie: 2 books
by Gordon Jarvie
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
From credit crunch to golden parachute barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about these and 3 000 other common English idioms. Packed with nuggets of fascinating information the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms traces the origins of...
by Gordon Jarvie
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favourites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-tellers like Andrew Lang, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan.