Description
Book SynopsisIn a career of more than 25 years in Fleet Street Simon Heffer has written columns for and held senior positions on the
Daily Mail,
The Daily Telegraph and
The Spectator. It was while associate editor of
The Daily Telegraph that his emails to staff lamenting their lapses in English became an internet cult, and led to the writing of this book. He read English at Cambridge and holds a PhD from that university in history. His previous books include:
Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle,
Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell,
Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England and
Vaughan Williams.
Trade ReviewAn impassioned case for correct English, full of practical advice * Country Life *
Every one of us who gasps at the use of English in the papers each morning or harrumphs on turning on the radio will find much to applaud * The Spectator *
I have spent several productive hours reading
Strictly English -- Jeffrey Archer * Daily Telegraph *
His evidently strong feelings about his subject, fluently expressed, make this book lively and engrossing * Times Literary Supplement *
The Holy Grail of grammar ... It is a delight to read and learn from this book * Field *
