If you are a lover of words, their origins and meanings, this small book with a big title, is for you. David Crystal is a professor of linguistics at Bangor University. The anthology that he has compiled shows the way words have shaped our writing and reading over the...
Too Many Cheeky Dogs (Bigismob Jigiwan Dog) from Johanna Bell and Dion Beasley is well presented in a colourful hardback picture book. The language used to tell the story is Kriol, which is spoken by about 20,000 Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. There are...
Let us face it, punctuation is pain. Somehow you never ever seem to get those squiggles, blots, and other ink spots and lines to behave and end up in the right places. But help is a hand with this quirky and somewhat tongue-in-cheek look at this bane on every writer,...
Word to the Wise is a very handy book. It’s by an unashamed, or is that unabashed, language nerd, Mark Broatch and now sits between my dictionary and thesaurus. It begins with some brief tips about how to write purposefully and clearly from this experienced writer and...
Cuba, a place beloved of Hemingway has come to life in this intimate and emotional tribute to the writer Ernest Hemingway, who for many years made Cuba his base, a place where he lived for the longest period of his life, a place where he wrote prolifically, much of...
and delightful log, or if you like recording or cataloguing, of an aspect of Australian life which is sadly slowly fading into obscurity. Perhaps it is something you can gift to yourself as a present under the tree or just simply because you deserve it! Very little...
Flowers and people, people and flowers: both appear to be inseparable but why is this so, why we get so much pleasure, so much enjoyment from these beautiful creations, is embedded into our DNA, in a form that is largely unrecognisable, but is often made apparent when...
Well, what can one say about Fucking Apostrophes other than finally, someone out there has decided to write a little book which deals with this terrible issue of Apostrophes. After all they have plagued people for ever and ever and ever, since that dratted man, one...
