A comprehensive and entertaining A-Z guide'A genuinely useful reference book that deserves a handy place on thedesk of everyone who wants to use the right word for the job.' The Guardian'A jolly little book A useful handbook to the booby traps that liein wait for us all, including such old favourites as imply/infer,uninterested/ disinterested, discreet/ discrete, fazed/phased and soon.' Independent on Sunday'For those muddled about standard English If you ever effect insteadof affect, or think bears are grisly and bones beneath the patio aregrizzly, this masterly and compelling, rather than masterful andcompulsive, volume is for you.' The Times'A guide containing much good sense uncertain users of the Englishlanguage in general would best profit from the whole book.' Times Literary Supplement

'Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words is that fairly rare thing a genuinely useful reference book that deserves a handy place on the desk of everyone who wants to use the right word for the job.' Ian Mayes, The Guardian 'A jolly little book A useful handbook to the booby traps that lie in wait for us all, including such old favourites as imply/infer, uninterested/ disinterested, discreet/ discrete, fazed/phased and so on.' Independent on Sunday 'For those muddled about standard English If you ever effect instead of affect, or think bears are grisly and bones beneath the patio are grizzly, this masterly and compelling, rather than masterful and compulsive, volume is for you.' The Times 'A guide containing much good sense uncertain users of the English language in general would best profit from the whole book.' Times Literary Supplement

Philip Gooden read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then taughtat secondary level for many years. In 2001 he became a full-timewriter. He is the author of the Nick Revill series, a sequence ofhistorical mysteries based in Elizabethan London and set aroundShakespeare's Globe theatre.