Sentence examples for proper books from inspiring English sources

Juan Carlos added that they needed the proper books.

Proper books long ago presaged the formal characteristics of newsletter-lit.

I still buy a lot of proper books, but fewer than I used to, and the process is accelerating.

Unlike economics dons like Hugh Dalton or Tony Crosland, or serious historians like Roy Jenkins, no members of the Blair-Brown cabinet had written proper books after their university days.

Most of them are still pap, of course, but amid the stocking-fillers are some proper books by proper writers – people off the telly who can really write, and have something worthwhile to say.

Bafflingly, though, illustration is often still seen as childish, something to be swiftly moved past – "picture books are for babies", "yes, but comics aren't proper books" – en route to maturity, the realm of 8pt fonts and tundras of frozen text.

Get a little paper book that you made yourself or buy a proper record book.

Business basics such as contracts, proper book-keeping and customer satisfaction were widely ignored.

And, finally, an Austrian publisher has compiled the first proper book of Suschitzky's photography.

"I thought I could never write a proper book, I'd never done it before.

Bitter Experience Has Taught Me is not a proper book, but you probably won't care.