Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss – The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation – is a funny book on punctuation. Does punctuation matter? Well, to use one of the examples in the book, there’s quite a significant difference between extra marital sex and extra-marital…
Anthology of British Tongue-Twisters by Ken Parkin is an old book, published in 1969, it is also the first specialist collection of tongue twisters and is still a great tool for warming up and improving general articulation. This is a fun book with lots of…
I was expecting to like 30 Second Literature by Ella Berthoud* but I had no idea that I will enjoy it so much. As all the books in the series (see towards the end of my post how many I read so far), in this…
As I recently took the IELTS test, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about the books for IELTS, as I did spent a lot of time browsing through them and making practice tests. Furthermore, if you want to read about my…
The Queen’s English by Bernard C. Lamb – And How to Use It. It is a short guide, filled with useful information. Lamb is the President of the Queen’s English Society, so a uniquely qualified person to write a book on Queen’s English. The book…
English for the natives by Harry Ritchie – Discover the grammar you don’t know you know. I got this book from the library because I wanted to review a bit of grammar, in preparation for a test I’m taking. Well, this book proved to be…