Have You Eaten Grandma?
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  • Published: 1 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405945080
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99

Have You Eaten Grandma?

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4 Oct 2018
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A hilarious lament on the misuse of English grammar from the self-proclaimed punctuation perfectionist Gyles Brandreth

Don't know if it's, like, okay to say 'like'?
Are your apostrophe's in the wrong place?
Should it be 'past' or 'passed'?
Want to make fewer not less grammatical mistakes?

Then do not despair, Gyles Brandreth's Have You Eaten Grandma? is the definitive (and hilarious) guide to punctuation, spelling, and good English for the twenty-first century.

Sunday Times best-selling author and grammar guru, Gyles pokes fun at the linguistic foibles of our time, tells us where we've been going wrong (and how to put it right), and reveals his tips and tricks to make every one of us better, more confident users (not abusers) of the English language.
  • Published: 1 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405945080
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, veteran of Just A Minute, QI and The One Show, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and founder of the 'Poetry Together' project bringing schoolchildren and older people together to learn poetry by heart. His many books include the best-selling poetry anthology, Dancing by the Light of the Moon, and the international best-seller about spelling and punctuation, Have You Eaten Grandma? With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Something Rhymes With Purple. With Dame Sheila Hancock he presents Great Canal Journeys on Channel 4. With Dame Maureen Lipman he is a regular on Celebrity Gogglebox.

Gyles is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown and has three children, seven grandchildren, and lives in London with his wife, his jumpers, and Nala, the neighbour's cat.

Also by Gyles Brandreth

Prose & Cons
A History of Britain in Just a Minute
What Goes Up White and Comes Down Yellow?
Elizabeth
Odd Boy Out
Living with the Enemy
Dancing By The Light of The Moon
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Praise for Have You Eaten Grandma?

Best thing ever, laugh-a-lot, spanning everything. Great book, I'm loving this

Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2

Brilliant, clear, entertaining, very funny and often outright silly. Brandreth excels . . . in all his linguistic joie de vivre and amusing self-awareness

Guardian

A witty and well-informed guide to the vagaries of English grammar. Heed his words; you won't regret it

Country & Town House, (Best Books to Go Under the Christmas Tree)

Whether you are obsessed with getting grammar right, baffled by grammar or (like us) just in love with words, you are going to love this. A hilarious and definitive guide to 21st-century language

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

An informal guide to punctuation, spelling and good English for the twenty-first century

Strong Words

This is a grammar guide that only Gyles Brandreth could write! Full of humour throughout, this is his definitive guide to punctuation, spelling and good English for the twenty-first century

Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald

The wordsmith's wordsmith guides us through the delights of the English language

Daily Mail
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