Writing & Language
How to Write Well (All You Need to Know)
Tim de Lisle, Nick Newman
Format: Paperback
Tim de Lisle hands you the keys to good writing, explaining how to be clear, concise and vivid. He rattles through the basics of grammar and reveals the tricks that will bring your writing alive.
Talk on the Wild Side
Lane Greene
Format: Hard Cover
How language outsmarts its would-be masters, by the Economist's language columnist.
Write to the Point
Sam Leith
Format: Paperback
Get writing right - in the only way that matters.
Writing a Novel
Richard Skinner
Format: Paperback
The essential companion for your writing life.
The Economist Style Guide
The Economist and Ann Wroe
Format: Paperback
An updated and refreshed edition of this bestselling guide to English usage.
That's The Way It Crumbles
Matthew Engel
Format: Paperback
Americanisms have been slyly coloring the English language for centuries, and this practice must stop. Period.
Rare Books Uncovered
Rebecca Rego Barry, foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Format: Paperback
Precious old books found in unlikely places, from the family that avoided foreclosure through a book in their attic to a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle in a local fundraiser.
Sounds Appealing
David Crystal
Format: Hard Cover
The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.
Children's Writer's Notebook
Wes Magee
Format: Hard Cover
A guided journal for aspiring authors in need of a creative workout.
Vulgar Tongues
Max Decharne
Format: Paperback
A rollercoaster ride through the colourful history of slang - from highwaymen to hip-hop, now in paperback
