Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and The British
By (Author) Steve Lowe
By (author) Alan McArthur
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
1st September 2010
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works
828.9207
Paperback
352
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
276g
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.Brilliant - Time Out
An entertaining journey to some of the stranger outposts of this sceptred isle - Choice MagazineWhen it comes to seeing the comedic downside and swearing about it, Lowe and McArthur remain the market leaders - TelegraphSteve 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.