One of the difficulties about punctuation is that a lot of it is down to personal preference or “style”. And that isn’t just a recent thing, to be blamed on textspeak and the belief that the world is ...

While the choice of words and sentences used in dialogue is important, punctuation can often show how people speak. This is as important as what they say. Mary’s hesitant speech, for example, reveals ...

I made this point during the Dark ZP review, in my signature frivolous style, but it’s an issue that stands out pretty prominently in The Bureau, too: there’s a staggeringly wide gulf between the ...