Cheapjack
Cheapjack

Author: Philip Allingham

Publisher: Golden Duck UK Ltd

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781899262021

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Golden Duck's edition of the 1934 bestseller Cheapjack by Margery Allingham's brother, Philip, containsover 30 photographs from the National Fairground Archive, the Allingham Society and other sources. An introduction by FRANCIS WHEEN discuses slumming in the 1930s and describes Cheapjack as an extraordinary autobiography. VANESSA TOULMIN of Sheffield University puts Cheapjack and its language in the context of the secretive society of showmen, hawkers and Gypsy travellers and calls it an important historic record. Margery Allingham's biographer, JULIA JONES, reveals the extent of detective novelist's involvement in Cheapjack and gives the wider story of this naive, eccentric and charming young man.

Shopping, Place and Identity
Shopping, Place and Identity

Author: Peter Jackson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-09-20

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1134733917

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Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that has developed in recent years.

The Adventures of Margery Allingham
The Adventures of Margery Allingham

Author: Julia Jones

Publisher: Golden Duck UK Ltd

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9781899262014

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This biography was researched in the very room where Margery Allingham worked, and was written with the full co-operation of Margery's sister, her secretary and her housekeeper. It was first published in 1991. Since then, however, new material has becoma available, including a revalationary collection of letters and the startling truth about her husband's relationship with the writer Nancy Spain. Was there a corpse underneath the sofa? The book's new title, new introduction and afterword invite the reader to look again. The Adventures of Margery Allingham is a new edition of Margery Allingham: a Biography published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1991.

A Dictionary of the Underworld
A Dictionary of the Underworld

Author: Eric Partridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13: 1317445538

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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.

The Selected Works of Eric Partridge
The Selected Works of Eric Partridge

Author: Eric Partridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-14

Total Pages: 2733

ISBN-13: 1317431588

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This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.