Other Key Texts:
Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
The Adventure of English by Melvin Bragg
Planet word by Stephen Fry
Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of English Language by David Crystal
English & Media Centre Language: A Student Handbook on Key Topics and Theories
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal