Mark Forsyth

Some people worry that they don't appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn't written to be appreciated it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment—for fun, for romance, for religion and for entertainment—and this is a book about those people.

In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style, from the best-selling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon....

A quirky, entertaining and thought-provoking tour of the unexpected connections between words, read by Simon Shepherd....

The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language....

The Horologicon - which means 'a book of things appropriate to each hour' - follows a day in the life of unusual, beautiful, and forgotten English words....

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different....

The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them....

Was mit angeschickerten Einzellern in der Ursuppe begann, hat in der Geschichte der Menschen feucht-fröhliche Spuren hinterlassen: In...