Linguistics

‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, Spectator

A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.

‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, Spectator

A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.

‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, Spectator

A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.

‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, Spectator

A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

DOES ‘I LOVE YOU’ EVEN MEAN THE SAME THING AS ‘JE T’AIME’?

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Talking to you in English’, he said, ‘is like touching you with gloves.’

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Talking to you in English’, he said, ‘is like touching you with gloves.’

Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.

A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic – a personal and intellectual awakening.

The best of the awesome Youtube and Twitter phenomenon Sh*t Girls Say!

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.