Just to let everyone know, The Elements of Eloquence is out in paperback (at least in the UK), and The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the...

 The British newspaper industry is looking up I'm giving a Guardian Masterclass on grammar tomorrow ( I think there are still tic...

 Whilst in Berlin I discovered a word, a German compound word to be exact. Now, usually I'm rather suspicious of these, but zettel...

I rather like a word that sounds as though it should be rude and isn't. And vice versa. I like jumentous because it sounds like a mixt...

I have a strange fondness for frequentatives, frequentative being verbs that happen frequently. So if you spark once, you spark. But if you...

I'm going to Harrogate this Sunday to do an event with the splendid Simon Garfield . It's at 5:30, and tickets are available here ....

Just  a link today to this article what I wroted in the Independent on Sunday , summarising my views on bookshops. Also and moreover, the...