Philip Gooden read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then taught at secondary school level for many years. In 2001 he became a full-time writer. Philip writes books on the English language as well as historical crime novels and mysteries. He was chairman of the Crime Writers” Association in 2007-8 and is part of the writing collective, The Medieval Murderers. He has also written the popular Who”s Whose?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, published by Bloomsbury.Philip Gooden read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then taught at secondary level for many years. In 2001 he became a full-time writer. He is the author of the Nick Revill series, a sequence of historical mysteries based in Elizabethan London and set around Shakespeare”s Globe theatre. Titles so far published are Sleep of Death, Death of Kings, The Pale Companion (shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2002), Alms for Oblivion, Mask of Night and An Honourable Murderer. A contributor to various short story anthologies, Philip Gooden also works as an editor, most recently on the Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes and a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle”s The Lost World for Penguin Classics. He has also written the popular Who”s Whose?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, published by Bloomsbury. He lives in Bath where he is currently working on the first in a new series of historical novels.
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Mr Philip Gooden: Who”s Whose?
Who”s Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today , with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear. The Embar …
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Mr Philip Gooden: Name Dropping
Ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower perhaps?!) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? There are hundreds of words derived from real people who are famous – or infa …
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Philip Gooden: Name Dropping
Ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower perhaps?!) ormet someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? There arehundreds of words derived from real people who are famous – or infamo …
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Gooden Philip Gooden: Who’s Whose?
Who’s Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear. The Embarra …
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€18.44
Mr Philip Gooden & Peter Lewis: Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases
Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. The very etymology of the word ”idiom” reveals what”s so endlessly fascinating about the wide range of colourful phrases we u …
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€10.76
Mr Philip Gooden & Peter Lewis: Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases
Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. The very etymology of the word ”idiom” reveals what”s so endlessly fascinating about the wide range of colourful phrases we u …
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€10.72
Peter Lewis & Philip Gooden: Word at War
War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ whenever the country is faced with major crisis or even minor adversity, and …
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Peter Lewis & Philip Gooden: Word at War
War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ whenever the country is faced with major crisis or even minor adversity, and …
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€10.39
Mr Philip Gooden: Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule : Life’S Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories
What is the shade of difference between Sod’s Law and Murphy’s Law? What is the Helsinki Bus Station Theory? What part do the Mc Naughton Rules and the Miranda Law play in criminal justice? Plenty of …
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Mr Philip Gooden: Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule : Life’S Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories
What is the shade of difference between Sod’s Law and Murphy’s Law? What is the Helsinki Bus Station Theory? What part do the Mc Naughton Rules and the Miranda Law play in criminal justice? Plenty of …
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Philip Gooden: May We Borrow Your Language?
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Cel …
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