SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...
Word, word, word, word, word, punctuation mark. This is how we read. Sometimes there are more words, or fewer. Occasionally additional marks—commas, em-dashes—enter the mix. But that’s pretty much how ...
It's clear straight away what sort of fish Cynan Jones is frying in The Dig, his bleak novel of west Wales rural despair. On page one Jones's unnamed "big man" parks up overlooking the shallow valley ...