Caroline Taggart

Back to Basics

The Education You Wish You'd Had

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 08/06/2017

ISBN: 9781782437819

Subject: Non-Fiction

Binding: Paperback

Size: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 192 pages

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata?

Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education in order to avoid those embarrassing situations when we feel as if we don't know things that others do. In Back to Basics, bestselling author Caroline Taggart provides readers with the opportunity to learn really useful stuff that was never taught in mainstream education, while also giving a refresher course on the main staples.

From brushing up on Bible stories and classical architecture, to identifying different types of clouds, your thirst for knowledge will be sated and your education complete – and it's enormous fun to boot!

Sales points:

  • A book that gives you the good, old-fashioned education you always wished you'd had

  • From brushing up on the staples like tectonic plates and French grammar, to stuff you were never taught at school, such as artistic terms and mythological characters – Back to Basics covers the lot

  • Entertaining, accessible and choc-full of good, solid information

  • Written by Caroline Taggart, the author of the bestselling I Used to Know That series (over 280,000 copies sold to date)

About the Author:

Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe. Her website is carolinetaggart.co.uk and you can follow her on Twitter @citaggart.