Gowers's main precepts are as sensible today as they were when he first presented them ... beneficial, intelligent and sympathetic

Rebecca Gowers has been charged with the task of producing a version which is true to the spirit of the original but adapted to the needs of the 21st century. She discharges this task with wit and delicacy

Over half a century after Plain Words was first published, its principles are as important as ever: say what you mean in the clearest possible fashion. Rebecca Gowers has done a great job ... superb

Vastly informative and indispensable

One thing that makes Gowers such an engaging figure is that he isn't prissy, priggish or prim. As far as he is concerned, language is a living thing that is constantly changing - and this is just as it should be

Itself a model of how plain words should be used

The zeal with which Sir Ernest uncovers error is matched only by the wit with which he chastises it

The great Sir Ernest Gowers ... the grand old boy himself

I am glad that attention should be continually drawn to copies of this book ... I am in full sympathy with the doctrine laid down by Sir Ernest Gowers

A small literary jewel

A delight, a classic of its kind

Great fun to read

Brilliant

A sweetly reasonable and wholly admirable guide

It will delight far wider circles than those to whom it is primarily addressed

Compelling

A colourful treatment of a colourful life

Personal and affectionate tribute

Affectionate, familial tribute to this many-sided man.