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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 05/11/2015
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ISBN: 9780241975008
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 191g
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RRP: £8.99
How to be a Brit
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The Classic Bestselling Guide
The indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness
George Mikes's perceptive best-seller provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Having been born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than forty years in the field, and the fruits of his labour include with chapters on "How to Avoid Travelling", "On Shopping", "In Praise of Television", "On Not Complaining" and "How to Panic Quietly".
Loved by readers and authors alike, How to Be a Brit contains Mikes's three major works -- How to be an Alien, How to be Inimitable and How to be Decadent. If you're British, you'll love it; if you're a foreigner, you'll appreciate it.
Queuing: "An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."
How to plan a town: "Street names should be painted clearly and distinctly on large boards. Then hide these boards carefully."
Sex: "Continental people have sex lives: the English have hot water bottles."
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 05/11/2015
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ISBN: 9780241975008
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 191g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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In all the miseries which plague mankind, there is hardly anything better than such radiant humour as is given to you. Everyone must laugh with you - even those who are hit with your little arrows.
Albert Einstein to George Mikes
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An instant classic
Francis Wheen on 'How to Be an Alien'
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Very funny
The Economist
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Bill Bryson is George Mikes' love-child
Jeremy Paxman
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This is the vital textbook for Brits, would-be Brits, and anyone who wonders what being a Brit really means. Pass me my hot water bottle, please
Dame Esther Rantzen
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Wise and witty
William Cook on 'How to Be an Alien', Spectator
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Brilliantly comical
Pico Iyer on 'How to Be an Alien', New York Times
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Mikes is a master of the laconic yet slippery put-down: "The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink"
Henry Hitchings
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I love it and read it cover to cover. Also has good tips for talking about the weather, not that we need them
Rachel Johnson
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Full of the very best advice that any would-be Brit should need (and for those of us who have forgotten exactly how it is to be ourselves) it's a jolly good read
The Telegraph
