Simon Heffer

Scarcely English

An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornerstone
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781804940136
• ISBN-10: 1804940135
• Artikelnr.: 72212164

Autorenporträt

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 Consequences 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 Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.