Bloomsbury

Our language is changing faster than ever before, thanks to theinfluence of the media, e-mail, the Internet and text messaging. Moderncommunications are breaking down distinctions between formal andinformal English, raising ever more questions as to how to speak andwrite correctly. This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide...

Volume One of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer FamilyThe Lorimers are one of the richest and most powerful Bristol families...When Margaret Lorimer, daughter of the autocratic chairman of Lorimer’s Bank, asks her father if she can marry a comparatively humble young Scot, he does not put up the resistance she was expecting.Indeed, John Junius...

In the golden half light of a midsummer’s evening, the sort where any kind of magic can occur, and often does, in the midst of a party held in a wild and rambling garden stood Pierre, teetering on highly unsuitable heels, surrounded by a symphony of overripe roses.Pierre is the heroine of this loveable love story, and the magic takes the form...

George Elkin has loyally trained as a solicitor in order to follow in his father’s footsteps and run the family firm. But when his father dies, George resolves to follow his heart instead, looking after the West Country farm he grew up on. With the help of neighbours, his childhood friends Prodge and Nell, George is sure he can adapt to a...

While claiming to stand outside literature altogether, Roman verse satire was the most aggressively literary of Roman genres, Juvenal's particularly so. In the opening lines of the corpus, his performance creates an arena in which the various genres of his Graeco-Roman cultural inheritance jostle to be heard, and are suppressed by his own generic...

We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to...