Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a million views. He is also the author of The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence, and wrote a specially commissioned essay The Unknown Unknown for Independent Booksellers Week. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.
15 Ebooks by Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth: The Etymologicon
'Witty and erudite … stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick Duerden, Independent. 'Partic …
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€8.39
Mark Forsyth: Horologicon
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON.’Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting’ Roland White, Sunday Times.Mark Forsyth presents a delightfully ec …
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€7.48
Mark Forsyth: Mark Forysth’s Gemel Edition
The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth’s Inky Fool blog about the strange connections between words. The Horologicon – which means ‘a book of things appropriate to each hour’ – follows a day in t …
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€14.99
Mark Forsyth: Elements of Eloquence
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON. ‘An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric … Mark Forsyth wears his considerable kno …
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€9.02
Mark Forsyth: The Unknown Unknown
Mark Forsyth – author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon – reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a real …
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Mark Forsyth: Eine kurze Geschichte der Trunkenheit
Kenntnisreich und berauschend witzig beschreibt Mark Forsyth in seiner feuchtfröhlichen Kulturgeschichte des Betrunkenseins, warum wir evolutionär danach streben, dem Alkohol zuzusprechen. Seriös und …
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Mark Forsyth: Christmas Cornucopia
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SHORT HISTORY OF DRUNKENNESSDiscover the unpredictable origins and etymologies of our Christmas customs this festive season. For something that happen …
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Mark Forsyth: Short History of Drunkenness
THE PERFECT READ FOR ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A TIPPLE . . . OR TWO . . . OR TEN! Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there’s drink there’s drunkenness. But in every age and in every place dr …
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Felicitas von Lovenberg: Lob der guten Buchhandlung
Was gibt es Schöneres, als unverhofft auf die große Liebe zu stoßen? Oder auf ungeahnte Lesefreuden? Über das große Glück, das zu finden, wonach man nicht gesucht hat, schreibt Mark Forsyth in seinem …
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Mark Forsyth: The Illustrated Etymologicon
A NEW, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, PUBLISHED ON ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY. 'Witty and erudite … stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobo …
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€20.39
Mark Forsyth: A Riddle for a King (Times Children’s Book of the Week, from the bestselling author of the Etymologicon)
Philo longs for freedom and adventure, and he most certainly gets it when he lands in the strangest of lands: a place where nothing makes sense, a place packed with riddles and paradoxes. Will Philo …
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