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Dickimaw Books is a small independent publishing company. It was set up in 2012 by Dr Nicola L. C. Talbot and is based in Norfolk, England. The company specialises in low-cost tertiary academic books and children's illustrated fiction. (No unsolicited manuscripts accepted.)

Recent News

2013-05-04
New illustrated children's book "Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back!" now ready.
2013-04-29
Added New Book Alert form.
2013-04-29
Updated glossaries FAQ.
2013-04-26
New illustrated children's book Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back! in premedia.
2013-04-21
Update: LaTeX package glossaries version 3.05 released.
2013-03-21
Book reading of The Foolish Hedgehog and Q&A session at Heartsease Primary School. What polite, well-behaved kids!
2013-03-19
New version of "Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis" now available.
2013-01-26
Added site map.
2013-01-15
Update: LaTeX package datatool v2.13 released.
2013-01-13
Added Guest Book.
2013-01-05
Added experimental code page.
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What's In a Name?

I often get asked where does the name "Dickimaw" come from, so I thought I'd add a note about it here. I moved to Norfolk in the mid 1990s, but although I wasn't bred and born here I can claim to have a few drops (albeit very diluted) of Norfolk blood as my maternal grandfather's maternal grandfather was a Yarmouth man. Anyway, I have become very fond of the place and joined the Friends of Norfolk Dialect. I wanted to choose a name that was somehow inspired by Norfolk. There are lots of Canary this and Wherry thats around, so instead I thought about the Norfolk expression "Heh yar fa’r got a dickey, bor?" and decided to merge the last two words, but an Internet search showed up quite a few hits for that, so I changed the masculine "bor" to the feminine "maw". Hence Dickimaw. Dew yew keep a' troshin!
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