A very personal reference tool from the desk of bestselling author Bill Bryson.
Bill Bryson is much loved for his bestselling travel books, from The Lost Continent to Down Under, but Notes from a Small Island has earned a particularly special place in the nation's heart (a national poll for World Book Day in 2003 voted it the book that best represents Britain). His acclaimed A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. He has now returned to live in the UK with his wife and family. www.billbryson.co.uk
Sensible advice... Bryson is against pomposity and in favour of
clarity and brevity... His pet hates are particularly well judged,
by which I mean they are mine too. Time and again, I found myself
cheering him on... Evelyn Waugh would find much to surprise and
please him here... provides plenty of ammunition for anoraky
one-upmanship
*Mail on Sunday*
Now your favourite transplanted American (and mine) has ventured
into the field of Linguistic Guidance for Limeys... Language lovers
- of every stripe and creed - should raise three cheers.... clear
out your linguistic cobwebs, with the help of Bill Bryson
*The Times*
As a newspaper sub-editor myself (Bryson's original trade), I've
read this guide to spelling, grammar and usage from front to back
and have to say one thing. It's brilliant. It should be on the
shelf of anyone aspiring to make a living using the English
language... the best book of its type yet written
*Daily Mail*
Sensible advice... Bryson is against pomposity and in favour of
clarity and brevity... His pet hates are particularly well judged,
by which I mean they are mine too. Time and again, I found myself
cheering him on... Evelyn Waugh would find much to surprise and
please him here... provides plenty of ammunition for anoraky
one-upmanship -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
Now your favourite transplanted American (and mine) has ventured
into the field of Linguistic Guidance for Limeys... Language lovers
- of every stripe and creed - should raise three cheers.... clear
out your linguistic cobwebs, with the help of Bill Bryson -- Erica
Wagner * The Times *
As a newspaper sub-editor myself (Bryson's original trade), I've
read this guide to spelling, grammar and usage from front to back
and have to say one thing. It's brilliant. It should be on the
shelf of anyone aspiring to make a living using the English
language... the best book of its type yet written * Daily Mail *
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