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Full disclosure, as I don't normally do reviews in this blog, so publishing this one might be seen to carry a certain amount of weight: ...

Normally when I read a China Miéville novel, I blog or tweet the whole way through because the language he uses is so exciting and lovely. ...

Cover of 'Have you eaten Grandma?' by Gyles Brandreth I was considering writing a review of this book, Have you eaten Grandma?...

This is the first in a short series of posts about things I've noticed in my current book, The Leopard by Jo Nesbo. I'm reading the ...

Last November I read The Goldfinch  by Donna Tartt. It was really good, incredibly readable (I whizzed through it) and engaging and moving. ...

I'm reading The City and the City  by China Mi éville at the moment. I'm only about 60 pages in but I already really like it, pa...

I read one of Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen books, And then you die . Part of the plot (not really a spoiler) involves Zen (an Italian) f...

I went to a talk by Steven Pinker to promote his book, The Sense of Style . It was held at the Royal Institution, which is a science institu...

I'm currently reading English for the Natives by Harry Ritchie. I might try and do a proper review sometime, but for now here's a sn...

Recently I went to the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. I had a look round their shop and saw this iPad cover designed to look like the jacket ...

In the book '48 hours' by J Jackson Bentley (a fairly crappy crime thriller), forensic corpus linguistics turned up. In the book, a ...

Sounds sinister, that title, like a line from a classic ghost story. It's not - I said it, in the perfectly pleasant surroundings of Côt...

I've just finished reading the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. It was all right, not great literature but a fun enough read. Od...

This has just come to my attention: New Books in Language , interviews with authors of new books about language!

I recently treated myself to this book for the princely sum of 5p (plus £2.80 delivery from America - really,  you can't say fairer tha...

So, there's this book . (You can't Click to look inside!, that's just part of the image. Go to Amazon if you want to do that.) ...

That's the main message of this Telegraph article , which did some kind of statistically dodgy survey and found that while 71% of the bo...

It's been a while since I've done a post about word counts. Since I moved here from Tumblr I've tried to be, you know, interesti...

There's a new book out which I haven't read yet. However, that never stopped anyone posting an Amazon review, so I'll throw my ...

We were having a conversation about linguistic sci-fi the other night in the pub (best place for it, I find). I love sci-fi, and I love ling...