Nigel Viney, having bluffed his way through a fruitful career in book publishing (with an interval in the oil industry) is now enjoying a new career as a Consultant. He insists his success in this field is solely because he realised at once that Consultancy is populated exclusively by bluffers, the most triumphant being those who succeed in bluffing themselves as effectively as their clients.

Nigel Viney is only prepared to reveal all, in his Bluffer's Guide, because he is now well launched on a third career as a writer, having published several books about words, the writer's raw material. These include Magenta Marathon Mecca, a glossary of toponyms, and Amontillado to Yorkshire Pudding, a glossary of personal and place names in food and drink, subjects which, like Consultancy, are ever in demand.

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