How to Be a Brit by George Mikes

British habits viewed through an affectionate outsider's eye

Good Condition - with light cover marks and scuffs, rubbed edges, small corner bends and slight curl. Pages remain clear.

George Mikes offers a comic guide to the mysteries of British behaviour, examining the customs that insiders accept and newcomers find delightfully baffling. This volume brings together How to Be an Alien, How to Be Inimitable and How to Be Decadent, allowing his observations to range across everyday conversation, social manners and the ways a nation changes while remaining recognisably itself. Queues, language and the rituals of public and private life provide material for gentle exaggeration and unexpectedly sharp insights. Mikes writes with the perspective of someone both involved in and slightly apart from the society he describes. Witty, accessible and easy to browse, the collection celebrates the comedy of trying to belong while continuing to notice what everyone else overlooks.