Author: Books for Writing

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of English.  Roy Peter Clark | New York: Little, Brown, 2010. As far as word associations go, glamour and grammar seem worlds apart, except at one stage in the history of English when glamour and grammar were actually the same word. Glamour or grammar…

I was nine years of age when I got into a football. My school desk was positioned just in front of the sports equipment cupboard – the perfect spot. Every afternoon I watched another part of its crusty skin crack as a rough hand flung it back into its cluttered home. That one football was…