This is a brilliant new collection of stereotypes from the long running "Daily Telegraph" series. In this hilariously mordant, yet touchingly sympathetic, book, no aspect of English life is spared. Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape return in sparkling form to immortalize those very English characters and situations we come across every day. For all of us, there'll always be an England, and, we're afraid, this is it...Stereotypes include: The Post Office Queue; The Cheryl Cole Wannabe; The Rebellious Congregation; The Pub Quiz Team; The Comical Dog Show; The Hateful Hosts; The Milkman; The Village Organist; and, The Pet Funeral. Praise for previous collections: 'Mather and Macartney-Snape are not so much observers, more collectors, pinning their victims like butterflies in a display cabinet ...Very enjoyable' - Michael Parkinson. 'With consummate skill the authors have once again skewered our national smugness' - Nicky Haslam. 'A dazzling combination' - Jilly Cooper.
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Victoria Mather is a journalist and broadcaster. As travel editor of Vanity Fair she investigates hotel heavens for the stars. She has worked for the Daily Telegraph since 1986, initially as film critic and subsequently as columnist. She is a commentator for CBS and NBC television in America, worked with Ned Sherrin on BBC Radio 4's 'Loose Ends', and has a travel column, 'Victoria's Secrets', in the Telegraph's Ultratravel section. She spends her time in either London, Isle of Wight, New York or on aeroplanes. She has one Pekingese dog, one husband and fourteen Godchildren. Sue Macartney-Snape was born in Tanganyika, educated in Australia and now lives in London. She has had several sell-out exhibitions of her work and has been acclaimed as the Wodehouse of Art.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Goldilocks
Format:Hardcover
This would be a very good present for anyone who reads the Saturday supplement to The Daily Telegraph, which is where these illustrations and wry vignettes of modern English stereotypes first appeared.
The book brings the the columns together in a well-chosen collection that will also amuse those who like to take a side-ways glance at everyday folk.
The descriptions tend to be limited to upper middle-class characters: but what did you expect from The Telegraph?
You will spend the following week trying to spot your own 'social stereotypes.'
The book brings the the columns together in a well-chosen collection that will also amuse those who like to take a side-ways glance at everyday folk.
The descriptions tend to be limited to upper middle-class characters: but what did you expect from The Telegraph?
You will spend the following week trying to spot your own 'social stereotypes.'
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Could not resist another new Social Stereotypes. Compulsive reading and although an avid reader in the Saturday Telegraph magazine I have to have a copy of the book. Totally wonderful and the best of English eccentricities. Fantastic.
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This is a 'must have' book for your guests room - but don't read too many pages at one time - you'll crack a rib laughing!
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