In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Our Evenings,” a sweeping story about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English ... a hurtling history of the ...
Erik Smitterberg - Professor of English Linguistics, Uppsala University ‘This book is a real page turner. Some people find readings about the History of the English Language boring. This is not going ...
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill ... Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople (Oxford University Press) My book of the year is John Ma’s Polis: A New History of the ...
It was only when British engineers made these new technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world. ‘Robert Allen has for ...