Spellbound
My latest non-fiction book is called Spellbound – the improbable story of English spelling. It’s all about a subject that really fascinates me: the way we spell English.
After all, everybody accepts quite freely that English spelling is a pretty strange thing, as well as being also extremely illogical and inconsistent. I decided to take a look at the story of English spelling and it was an amazingly interesting odyssey that took me into the very earliest history of not only the English language but also the earliest Germanic language.
Yes, it was an exhilarating journey to make and I think people are going to enjoy my account of just why English spelling is the way it is.
The book was published by Robson Books in the UK in May 2006 and by Random House in the United States in May 2007 under the Delta Trade Paperback imprint.
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