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THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH (Paperback)
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Published by: Sceptre
Ref No: C108

Subtitled The Biography of a Language Melvyn Bragg’s book, now in paperback, does indeed tell the life story of the English Language from its early beginnings, through its many sta…
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SCRABBLE LISTS 2005 (Paperback)
Published by: Collins
Ref No: M541

Last month Bookshelf looked at Scrabble Words, the Collins book including all the 260,000 words acceptable in Scrabble. Now comes the complementary title Scrabble Lists 2005. This …
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THE WRITER'S VOICE (Paperback)
Author: Al Alvarez
Published by: Bloomsbury
Ref No: M542

Your voice as a writer is your presence on the page and the way your writing sounds. It is not the same thing as style, although the two are often confused, because you can conscio…
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WRITING THE POPULAR NOVEL (Paperback)
Author: Loren D Estleman
Published by: Writer’s Digest Books
Ref No: C029

There is no such genre as the ‘popular novel’. There are romance novels, historicals, mysteries, crime fiction, science fiction, and so forth. These are genres, so a popular novel …
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THE STORIES OF ENGLISH (Paperback)
Author: David Crystal
Published by: Penguin
Ref No: C070

There are several books telling the story of English, tracing its development from Old English to the language of today. Usually they focus on Standard English – but most people wh…
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EFFECTIVE GRAMMAR (Paperback)
Published by: Chambers
Ref No: C071

Here we have one of the two titles in the Chambers Desktop Guides series that we review this month; the other is Perfect Punctuation (next column). With Effective Grammar you have …
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