A butler should never tell tales out of school (or salon, as the case may be) but we’ll forgive Canadian “household management” educator and buttling expert Charles MacPherson for letting slip some of his most distinguished tricks of the trade in The Butler Speaks: A Return to Proper Etiquette, Stylish Entertaining, and the Art of Good Housekeeping. Best read aloud with a lively British accent, this fully updated edition takes everything we learned from watching Downton Abbey and applies it to emails, text messaging and pulling together a perfect cheese plate. There’s even a how-to for ironing your newspaper. —Kelsey Klassen
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