Scarcely English : An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language, Simon Heffer

Scarcely English : An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language, Simon HefferNew Paperback The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era when, thanks to the web (another word to have changed its meaning) everyone can be a published author, completely unedited and unregulated. This often has dire

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an auditorium of silence and the purity of the natural world - and soon arrives in Cellan

An irresistibly romantic historical adventure by the author of the international bestseller The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling history about the months that sent England into civil war

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and perhaps a metaphor for the troubled planet

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shifting the reader's attention to the things easily overlooked by those who move through the world untroubled by the body that carries them

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the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century

Military campaigns in the Baroque age across Europe were far more fortress-oriented - field battles were few while sieges were many