Joe Moran

A style guide by stealth - how anyone can write well (and can enjoy good writing). The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with "Items trapped in doors cause delays." A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply...

Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group, or flush with humiliation if we suddenly become the unwelcome centre of attention. In Shrinking Violets, Joe Moran...

To fail is human. Get used to it . . . Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters. Widely acclaimed observer of daily life Joe Moran...