Category: Language & Writing
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! "Gretchen McCulloch is the internet's favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix." --Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
In The Little Book of Lost Words, history buff Joe Gillard presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history's best words.
Category: Language & Writing
A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English Apostrophes are an f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly. Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers -- wont to insert ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing | Series: TLS Bks.
What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?'- Karin Slaughter'. I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' - The Times In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
_______________________'An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.' ELIZABETH STROUT_______________________ An indispensable, New York Times-bestselling guide to the craft of writing from Random House's long-time copy c ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead)u How to fight back? This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose w ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
The ultimate survival guide, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days takes the aspiring screenwriter the shortest distance from blank page to complete script.Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in the writer's onto the page. This method guides the would-be ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and gove ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by edit ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
Do you ever feel like an acephalous dandiprat? Want to amimadvert with anfractuous brimborions? Have you ever simply felt unable to dapatically deblaterate to the best of your ability? Then here is the book for you! The 600 new words included are just as outlandish (and useful) as the 500 in the previou ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he d ...Show more
Category: Language & Writing
An amazing collection of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over. In 100 Children's Books That Inspired Our World, author Colin Salter brings together an exceptional collection of truly ...Show more
