COME WITH US NOW, ON WINGS OF POETRY... AWARD WINNING POET ARTHUR FOOT III RETURNS WITH A NEW COLLECTION OF PUNTASTIC POEMS AND SAUCY SONGS! ABLY ASSISTED BY HIS PULCHRITUDINOUS PARTNER, MISS TILLY MAYDME, ARTHUR CUTS TO THE CORE OF SUCH WORLD SHATTERING SUBJECTS AS BOOZE, INNUENDO, INVENTIONS, STRUMPETS & STYLE WITH HIS POWERFULLY PENETRATING PEN AND MIGHTILY MELLIFLUOUS MIND!

Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.

A darkly comic turn through the madcap world of the superyachting industry. The author, facing redundancy from the British merchant navy, jumps ship to this rapidly-expanding business, typically portrayed as wonderful or sinister in the media, and finds it's a bit of both.