مؤلف: Simon Heffer

'There is an old saying, 'Murder will out.' I am really unable to see why this should be so…'Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) inspired the classic Ealing film …

A tweedy purveyor of folklore; too many larks ascending and too much Linden Lea: no composer's work has ever been more cruelly stereotyped than that of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The truth could ha …

The Telegraph newspapers maintain their high standards of accuracy, literacy and grammar thanks to a comprehensive style book used by all their journalists, covering everything from the correct title …

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, co …

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 t …

"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.&quo …

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 mag …

_______________________________’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-writ …

Should England be independent from Scotland? May 1999. The Scots have their first opportunity in 300 years to elect their own parliament. In 2014 that referendum will finally take place. To many in E …

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 "magist …

The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been su …