book

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.