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Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and The British

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and The British

Contributors:

By (Author) Steve Lowe
By (author) Alan McArthur

ISBN:

9780751540598

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:

Sphere

Publication Date:

1st September 2010

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Places and peoples: general and pictorial works

Dewey:

828.9207

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

352

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm

Weight:

276g

Description

Britishness: what does it really mean Is it all a big con Having skewered modern British life in the bestselling Is It Just Me or is Everything Shit, Steve Lowe and Alan MacArthur set out to uncover the deep dark truth about Britain - its history, its myths and its people.

Over the course of a year they watch Dorset Morris men dancing on a chalk-giant s thirty-foot-long erection, endure the Last Night of the Proms and search for a couple of pissed dragons under a hill in Wales. They ask Prince William what it means to be British, witness Scotland rising again (a bit), encounter terrifying Europhobe ladies in Surrey, and lose the will to live in Gibraltar. They also meet a lot of druids.

Hilarious, timely and provocative, Blighty offers a brilliant, alternative vision of Britain - the island in the Atlantic that some people call Britain.

Reviews

Brilliant - Time Out

An entertaining journey to some of the stranger outposts of this sceptred isle - Choice Magazine

When it comes to seeing the comedic downside and swearing about it, Lowe and McArthur remain the market leaders - Telegraph

Author Bio

Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur are the authors of IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT Volumes 1 and 2. Steve Lowe lives in Brighton and Alan McArthur lives in London. This is their third book.

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