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Caroline Taggart

Goodreads Author

Born

London, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.carolinetaggart.co.uk

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Genre

Reference, Nonfiction, Travel

Member Since

September 2012

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I was an editor for 30 years before Michael O’Mara Books asked me to write what became I Used to Know That. I think its success took everyone by surprise – it certainly did me – but it led to my writing a lot of other books and finally, after about three years, feeling able to tell people I was an author. It's a nice feeling.

Until recently the book I was most proud of was The Book of London Place Names (Ebury), partly because I am passionate about London and partly because, having written ten or so books before that, I finally felt I was getting the hang of it.

Now I have to confess I’m really excited by my first venture into continuous narrative. For A Slice of Britain: around the country by cake (AA) I travelled the country investigating ...more

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Impressive first novel with an unlikely heroine

Ruth Leigh’s debut novel, The Diary of Isabella M Smugge, came as a pleasant surprise.

Isabella, successful lifestyle influencer and social-media addict, may insist her name is pronounced to rhyme with ‘Bruges’, but five minutes in her company convince us otherwise: this woman is smug to the very core of her self-obsessed being. Recently moved from London to the country with her perfect husband, o

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	A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School 3.65 avg rating — 1,846 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School 3.42 avg rating — 1,845 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart (Goodreads Author), J.A. Wines 3.84 avg rating — 1,384 ratings — published 2008 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	500 Words You Should Know 3.84 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Apple A Day 3.33 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature by Caroline Taggart (Goodreads Author), Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.02 avg rating — 155 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Ladyship's Guide to the Queen's English 3.94 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins 3.25 avg rating — 93 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas at War: True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front 3.96 avg rating — 75 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Does a Bear Sh*t in the Woods?: Answers to Rhetorical Questions 2.99 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his, sulks in his tent for eight books and spends the ninth telling Agamemnon he’s had enough and he’s going home.”
― Caroline Taggart, A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School

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“As far as I’m concerned, whom is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.’ CALVIN TRILLIN”
― Caroline Taggart, My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English

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“alea iacta est: ‘the die is cast’.”
― Caroline Taggart, A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School

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Caroline’s Quotes

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion

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