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High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer
Category: History
Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind. Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear o ...Show more
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer
Category: Popular History
Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind. Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear o ...Show more
Simply English: An A-Z of Avoidable Errors by Simon Heffer
Category: Languages and Reference
In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well. In Simply English he offers an entertaining and supremely useful A-Z guide to frequent errors, common misunderstandings and stylistic howlers. What is the difference between amend and emend, between imp ...Show more
Simply English: An A-Z of Avoidable Errors by Simon Heffer
Category: Languages and Reference
In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well. In Simply English he offers an entertaining and supremely useful A-Z guide to frequent errors, common misunderstandings and stylistic howlers. What is the difference between amend and emend, between imp ...Show more
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars by Simon Heffer
Category: History
'An epic new history . . . a work of epic scholarship, breathtaking range, and piercing originality' Daily Express 'An astonishing achievement of narrative history . . . I think the word is "magisterial".' Spectator 'Excellent, thorough, detailed and combatively argued.' Sunday Times _________________ ...Show more
Staring at God - Britain in the Great War by Simon Heffer
Category: WWI & WWII
_______________________________ 'A brilliant history: The first serious and really wide-ranging history of the Home Front during the Great War for decades. Scholarly, objective and extremely well-written. Filled with surprising revelations and empathy. Heffer's eye for the telling detail is evident on a ...Show more
Staring at God - Britain in the Great War by Simon Heffer
Category: History
The Great War evokes images of barbed wire and mud-filled trenches, and of the carnage of the Somme and Passchendaele, but it also involved change on the home front on an almost revolutionary scale. In his hugely ambitious and deeply researched new book, Simon Heffer explores how Britain was drawn into ...Show more
Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write ... and Why it Matters by Simon Heffer
Category: Non Fiction
"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer." "We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it." Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily Telegraph" about grammatical mist ...Show more
Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write... and Why it Matters by Simon Heffer
Category: Reference
"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer." "We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it." Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the The Daily Telegraph about grammatical mistak ...Show more
The Age of Decadence - Britain 1880 To 1914 by Simon Heffer
Category: History
'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the ...Show more
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
Category: History
The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an exp ...Show more
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