Where is drunken vandalism always a “booze-fuelled rampage?”
Where is everyone in uniform a “hero” and every thief “heartless”?
Where are market towns always “bustling” and villages “sleepy”?

Journalese is the language of news. It’s a strange language, a little like English. I’ve been working around native speakers for two decades, living as one of them and learning their ways, and in my book, Romps, Tots and Boffins – The Strange Language of News, I make their secrets available to the public for the first time. You don’t need to thank me.

It was a Book of the Year in the Spectator, the FT, the Times and the Sunday Times.

You can read some of the funny bits, see what people are saying or just take my word for it that it’s a “must read laugh-a-minute page-turner” and buy it from your local bookshop, Bookshop.org*,  Waterstones, or, you know, Amazon*.

*I receive an affiliate fee for purchases through that link, but really, I’d much prefer you to support your local bookshop by buying direct from them. 

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