VERBS
read a book
What book are you reading at the moment?
look through a book (=look at the pages quickly)
write a book
He’s written several interesting travel books.
publish a book
The book is published by Penguin.
a book comes out (=it is published for the first time)
Everyone was waiting for the new Harry Potter book to come out.
borrow a book (also take out a book British English) (=from a library)
You can borrow up to six books from the library.
return a book (=to a library)
Please return all your books before the end of term.
renew a book (=arrange to continue borrowing it from a library)
If you need to renew a book, you can do it by phone.
BOOK + NOUN
a book shop (also book store American English)
I got it from that little book shop in the village.
a book seller (=a person, shop, or company selling books)
High street book sellers are experiencing a drop in sales.
a book token British English (=a ticket that you can use to pay for a book)
She always bought me book tokens for my birthday.
a book review (=an article giving critical opinions of a book)
She had a book review published in the student magazine.
a book fair (=an event at which publishers and authors show new books)
the introduction/preface/foreword to a book
In the introduction to this book I referred to a conversation between myself and a young student.
a section of a book
The most useful section of the book is the list of suppliers of artists’ materials.
PHRASES
the cover of a book
His picture is on the cover of the book.
a chapter of a book
The first chapter of the book is about his childhood.
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