English language

The Liar's Dictionary

Almost American Girl

Wordslut

Story genius

The Sense of Style

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

The elements of eloquence

Wired for story

The Etymologicon

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Reading Like a Writer

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

Killing Floor

The Perfect Storm

Made in America

A Poetry Handbook

Chicka chicka boom boom

Writing to learn

The woman in black

The meaning of Liff

"A" is for Alibi

The Complete Robot

The codebreakers

Where Eagles Dare

Call for the Dead

4:50 from Paddington

Destination Unknown

They Do It with Mirrors

Politics and the English language

Sparkling Cyanide

The Abolition of Man

Cry, the Beloved Country

The Third Man

Peril at End House

The Secret Adversary

The Elements of Style

Pygmalion

The Secret Garden

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The prologue to the Canterbury tales

Hedda Gabler

Middlemarch

The Mother Tongue