A review of Creating Language Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language by Roger W. Shuy. One of the week's best invented words: "Insockurity". More reading than in 1970s: People in the UK seem to have been reading more over the past quarter of a century, a study suggests. A review of On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families by Jeremy Paxman. An interview with Tina Brown, the queen bee on both sides of the Atlantic and another kind of royalty.

A review of Shakespeare the Thinker by A. D. Nuttall and Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography by René Weis. The evanescent Romantic: A review of Being Shelley: the Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe. Too shy to gossip, too plain to join in: A review of Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle by Janet

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