Afterliff

Name: Afterliff
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780571301690
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By Jon Canter and John Lloyd

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Afterliff is a witty and inventive collection of newly coined words and definitions that capture the quirks of everyday life. From ‘Agharoo’, a Bollywood-style sneeze turned dance routine, to ‘Inverness’, the solitude of garden chairs in winter, John Lloyd and Jon Canter bring humour and insight to language. This book offers hundreds of fresh and amusing ways to describe common experiences often left unspoken.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy clever humour, wordplay, and playful reflections on daily life. Fans of linguistic creativity and British wit will find Afterliff a delightful addition to their collection.

Afterliff

30 years after The Meaning of Liff, Afterliff will be the funniest book of the year: a dictionary of brand new hilarious definitions of things there should be words for.

Thirty years after The Meaning of Liff became an international bestseller, comes Afterliff: John Lloyd and John Canter's hilarious dictionary of familiar objects and experiences 'that there should be words for but aren't', compiled using recycled names found on signposts.

Description

Agharoo n. - A larger-than-life sneeze in a Bollywood comedy, used as the basis for a dance routine.

Toames pl.n. - The first furtive touching of toes in bed after a severe row with your partner.

Ruswarp v. - To deliberately write a word unclearly when you don't know how to spell it.

Loudwater n. - A child's strongly held opinion, copied word for word from its parents.

Inverness n. - The loneliness of garden chairs in winter.

John Lloyd and Jon Canter have written and sourced hundreds of new definitions which are now brought together for the first time in Afterliff. Always funny, often profound and entirely unique, this is the essential book for anyone who finds there aren't enough words to describe what happens in everyday life.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571301690

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 August 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 244g

Pages: 224

Collections

Fiction Humour John Lloyd Jon Canter

About the Author

John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and, of course, QI.

Jon Canter is a novelist and scriptwriter who has written for Lenny Henry, Rowan Atkinson, Richard Wilson and Dawn French, among others. His novels Seeds of Greatness, A Short Gentleman and Worth are published by Vintage.