Dominic Selwood

Department of Physics, Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK

Selwood has done the impossible: he has produced a short and funny book on punctuation.

rigid rules and no creativity.

Award-Winning BBC Producer, UK

Dr Levi Roach — Lecturer and Award-Winning Author

Department of History, University of Exeter. UK

Students and teachers dread SPAG (spelling, punctuation and grammar), yet these are essential for clear written communication. This book is not only entertaining in itself, but neatly lays out the standard conventions

which make for good writing, without pedantry.”

The Revd Dr Simon Thorn — Teacher, Winchester College, UK

As a professor for 40 years, most of them at Harvard and now at Oxford, I fancy myself an expert on punctuation.

same time, I have lived in fear of violating fundamental and inviolable truths, while ruthlessly correcting the punctuation of students and colleagues. What a relief to have read Dominic Selwood’s delightful little book on this subject! The same will be true for every reader of this book. He or she will punctuate better and feel more confident in doing so.”

Professor Robert Eccles — Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK

And deservedly. I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to cut through the complexities and arcane rules of punctuation

Former Professor, Research Fellow in Physics and Chemistry, and Chaplain, University of Oxford, UK, and College of William and Mary, USA