The Times Style Guide

A Practical Guide to English Usage

Ian Brunskill, Times Books

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Times Books
16 February 2023

Writing & editing guides; Business communication & presentation; Press & journalism

The official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times. Uncover the rules, conventions and policies on spelling, grammar and usage followed by the journalists, contributors and editors working on the Times and Sunday Times newspapers. Now updated with all the latest policy decisions.

Royal Family or royal family? Frontrunner or front-runner? Assure or ensure? Affect or effect? Even the most accomplished writer will run up against these and many similar problems in the quest for clear, elegant and grammatical writing.

The Times and Sunday Times editors answer these and hundreds of other usage conundrums with a comprehensive collection of entries covering the quirky minefield of the English language.

Although no literary straitjacket, this authoritative guide is the foundation of correct English usage for all Times and Sunday Times journalists and contributors and provides a benchmark style, the essential ingredient of all well-written English.

Edited by: Ian Brunskill, Times Books
Imprint: Times Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780008412883
ISBN 10: 000841288X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 16 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Educated at the universities of Oxford and Hamburg, Ian Brunskill spent the best part of a decade as a freelance writer, editor, lecturer and translator, mostly in the fields of music, literature and visual art, before joining The Times in 1991. He succeeded the political commentator Anthony Howard as Obituaries Editor in February 1999, and took on the additional duties of Letters Editor in 2005; he also edits the paper's Saturday Faith page of religious features and news. He is editor of The Times Great Lives (2005) and The Times Great Victorian Lives (2007).