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Strictly English
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer." "We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it." Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the The Daily Telegraph about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted... more...
The Telegraph Style Guide
Aurum Press 2010; US$ 21.86The Daily Telegraph Style Guide Edited by Simon Heffer The Telegraph newspapers maintain their high standards of accuracy, literacy and grammar thanks to a comprehensive style book used by all their journalists, covering everything from the specific circumstances of a woman that permit the appellation dowager to the spelling of Gorden Kaye's Christian... more...
Moral Desperado
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 18.94'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' Lord Blake, Country Life 'A fresh, engaging, conscientious account of one of the great Victorians.' Michael Foot, London Review of Books 'A thorough and convincing account of 'the sage'. Peter Ackroyd, Times Thomas Carlyle was the most influential man of letters of his day, and... more...
Like the Roman
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 29.15There were few more controversial British politicians of the twentieth-century than Enoch Powell. There were few more brilliant, and yet, whilst being an MP for thirty-seven years, his ministerial career lasted a mere fifteen months. His influence however was enormous not least as a harbinger of Thatcherism. There was much more to him though: he... more...
Vaughan Williams
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 14.57A tweedy purveyor of folklore; too many larks ascending and too much Linden Lea: no composer's work has ever been more cruelly stereotyped than that of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The truth could hardly have been more different: that folksy feel masked the highest sophistication, that countrified air the most audacious experimentation. If, unlike his... more...
Nor Shall My Sword
Head of Zeus 2012; US$ 4.36Should England be independent from Scotland? May 1999. The Scots have their first opportunity in 300 years to elect their own parliament. In 2014 that referendum will finally take place. To many in England, the continuing rise of Scottish nationalism causes unease. Scotland could well choose to leave the United Kingdom. In this provocative polemic,... more...
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