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A Seasonal Collection of Forgotten Words to Elliott & Thompson 19 Dec 2023
Elliott & Thompson have bought World English rights in Paul Jones’s A Winter Dictionary: A Seasonal Collection of Forgotten Words.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales 26 Sep 2022
Japanese rights in Jeremy Dronfierld’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz.
Korean rights for Paul Jones’s Why Is This A Question? : And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Language.
Spanish rights in Danny Orbach’s Fugitives : A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War.
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New Paul Jones book to Elliott & Thompson. 10 Jun 2021
Elliott & Thompson have bought World English rights in Paul Jones’s Why Is This A Question? : And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Language
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Dictionary to give comfort in tough times to Elliott & Thompson 09 Jul 2019
Elliott & Thompson have bought World English rights in Paul Jones’s latest reference book A Dictionary of Hope: Kind Words For Unkind Times .
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North American rights sold in Around the World in 80 Words 22 Oct 2018
The University of Chicago Press have bought North American rights in Paul Jones’s Around the World in 80 Words.
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The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities to University of Chicago Press 15 Jun 2018
North American rights in Paul Anthony Jones’s The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words have been bought by University of Chicago Press.
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Paul Jones word book to Elliott & Thompson 16 May 2018
Elliott & Thompson have bought World English rights in Paul Anthony Jones’s latest word book Around the World in 80 Words.
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New Paul Anthony Jones word book to Elliott & Thompson 29 Mar 2017
Elliott & Thompson have bought UK rights in Paul Anthony Jones’s A Word a Day: A Yearbook of 365 Obscure Words which brings together 365 long-forgotten and long-overlooked words, each neatly and cleverly assigned to a different day of the year.
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US rights sold in The Accidental Dictionary 06 Jan 2017
Pegasus have bought US rights in Paul Jones’s The Accidental Dictionary: The Surprising Evolution of 100 Words.
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New word book to Elliott & Thompson 21 May 2016
Elliott & Thompson have commissioned a new trivia book from Paul Anthony Jones. How Rocks Became Clouds: The Surprising Evolution of 100 Words will be published for Christmas.
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Word Drops featured in Bookshop Corner 11 Jun 2015
Paul Anthony Jones’ new book Word Drops was featured this week in the Telegraph’s Bookshop Corner.
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Paul Anthony Jones writes for Foyles 07 May 2015
‘In Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities, Paul Anthony Jones takes on a glorious unpredictable journey through the world of language, revealing some of the many unexpected connections and weird juxtapositions that make the world of words such a delight. Amid a thousand different linguistic curiosities he ranges from Tudor England to the First World War and from German to Navajo. Dictionaries are usually regarded as the final arbiters on langauage, deciding arguments about anything from etymology to questionable seven-letter words in Scrabble, but, as Paul reveals here, even the most reputable of them sometimes get it plain wrong.’
When dictionaries get it wrong
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Word Drops on Radio Four 28 Apr 2015
Snippets from Paul Jones’ Word Drops are going to be used every day this week on Radio Four’s The World At One. The first one can be heard here, about 25 minutes in.
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Word Drops on Buzzfeed 22 Apr 2015
Paul Anthony Jones’ new book Word Drops is the subject of a Buzzfeed feature.
46 Delightful And Surprising Word Origins
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Word Drops on Independent's i100 list 14 Apr 2015
Publicity is building for Paul Anthony Jones’ new book Word Drops - the i100 website from The Independent has listed their favourite facts from the book here.
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Paul Anthony Jones is HuffPost's 'most-shared' 23 Dec 2014
An article by Paul Anthony Jones for HuffPost Books in October has ended up being their most shared article of the year, with almost quarter of a million likes.
HuffPost Books’ Most Viral Stories Of 2014
Paul was also recently profiled in The New Daily.
Forty strange facts about the English language
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150,000+ likes for Paul Anthony Jones 20 Oct 2014
Paul Anthony Jones’ new blog for Huffington Post has already generated more than 150,000 likes, as well as 50,000 shares.
An A to Z of Noah Webster’s Finest Forgotten Words
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Two new articles from Paul Anthony Jones 04 Aug 2014
Mental_Floss: 20 Latin Phrases You Should Be Using
The Guardian: Bluebeards and brainiacs: literary characters who enter the language
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Paul Anthony Jones's latest HuffPost column 20 Jun 2014
The English language is, quite literally, the greatest language in the world. Great in terms of size - the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains 615,000 entries. Great in terms of scope – it’s an official language in seventy-nine countries and territories. And great in terms of, well, greatness – it’s just one fantastic mishmash of borrowings, inventions, corruptions, misinterpretations, misspellings, alterations, words you’ll never need, and words you never even knew you’ll never need…
66 Facts You May Not Have Known About The English Language
Paul’s popular @HaggardHawks twitter account was also featured on Mental Floss.
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Paul Anthony Jones on Huffington Post 17 Mar 2014
Paul Anthony Jones has written a new blog for the Huffington Post, promoting his fascinating book Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons: The Origins of English in Ten Words.
15 English Words Derived From Irish Gaelic
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13 Words You Probably Didn't Know Were Coined By Authors 20 Feb 2014
Paul Anthony Jones has written another informative and amusing ‘Haggard Hawks’ piece for the Huffington Post:
13 Words You Probably Didn’t Know Were Coined By Authors
@HaggardHawks
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More publicity for 'Haggard Hawks' 18 Feb 2014
Paul Anthony Jones’s fascinating book of etymology, Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons, continues to generate attention. Paul has written a new piece for The Guardian, which was published at the weekend.
From ‘A’ to ‘ampersand’, English is a wonderfully curious language
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The Extraordinary Origins of 11 Ordinary Words 13 Feb 2014
Paul Anthony Jones has written an interesting piece for the Huffington Post, to promote his new book Haggard Hawks & Paltry Poltroons.
The Extraordinary Origins of 11 Ordinary Words
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'Haggard Hawks' in Guardian best of 2013 19 Dec 2013
Paul Jones’ Haggard Hawks & Paltry Poltroons was featured in The Guardian as one of the Best Language Books of 2013.
Stocking filler books for 2013
You can follow the book on Twitter: @haggardhawks
