‘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.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
DOES ‘I LOVE YOU’ EVEN MEAN THE SAME THING AS ‘JE T’AIME’?
The complete Cavafy poems – including the unfinished works – in a stunning new translation.
Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.
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.
Within these pages are hundreds of facts, figures, stories and trivia about reading and writing, from the earliest printed books to today’s best sellers.
With The Uxbridge English Dictionary the stars of BBC Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue had the nation in stitches. But times move on, words change and their meanings with them. Comedy’s most outrageous dictionary is back with a hilarious new collection of definitions for all those English words that don’t mean anything like they should.
A deeply moving memoir about a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family’s homesickness for a country they can call their own.
Simple techniques to help improve your recall
A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era.
