Usage and grammar guides

Everything you need to know about the 25 essential rules of English grammar.

Taking you back to the basics, this book will help native and non-native speakers master the nuts and bolts of the English language.

Ever wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction?

Having been asked many times if he could recommend a definitive guide to use of our glorious language and not satisfied that the right book existed, Lamb wrote it himself - Yorkshire Post

Written by the President of the Queens English Society and covering all of the basics, this clear and practical guide will teach anyone how to write and use English correctly.

Since 2011, the use of emoji deriving from the Japanese, meaning picture character has become a global phenomenon.

Historian and popular BBC TV presenter Ruth Goodman, author of How to Be a Tudor, offers up a history of Renaissance Britain the offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with practical tips on just how to horrify the Tudor neighbours.