The author of the best-selling Strictly English wages war on bad English
Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include- Moral Desperado- A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Like the Roman- The Life of Enoch Powell, Power and Place- The Political Life of King Edward VII, Nor Shall My Sword- The Reinvention of England, Vaughan Williams, Strictly English, A Short History of Power, Simply English and High Minds- The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain. In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs.
Fascinating ... a trove of riveting facts.
*Daily Mail*
It’s a bracing read. Heffer takes no linguistic prisoners. This is
a useful, well-constructed and often absorbing book.
*Spectator*
Simply English is much more readable than a reference book has a
right to be ... basically Simply English is rather good.
*Observer*
Advice that will change for ever the way you use certain words.
*New Statesman*
Easy to use and terribly hard to put down ... Essential.
*The Field*
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