• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M.R. James
• The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories - Lafcadio Hearn
• Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
• Native Tongues - Charles Berlitz
• The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English - Henry Hitchings
• The Story of English in 100 Words - David Crystal