Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
By (Author) Kate Fox
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton
29th July 2025
24th April 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural anthropology
306.0942
Physical Properties
Paperback
608
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Description
THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD.
'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES'Laugh out loud' MARTIN PARR'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIFER SAUNDERS'An entertaining, clever book' TELEGRAPHWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY GRAYSON PERRYThe unofficial guidebook to the English national character by anthropologist Kate Fox.Watching the English picks apart the bizarre codes of behaviour and quiet embarrassment of English culture to help you navigate the unspoken rules of this peculiar island nation.Kate Fox lays bare the inner workings of the class system and reveals why the whole country obsessively apologises and talks incessantly about the weather.Author Bio
Kate Fox, an anthropologist, is currently an Associate Member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. After an erratic education at a random sample of schools in England, the USA, France and Ireland, she studied anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge. She was for many years co-director of an independent social research centre in Oxford. Kate is married to the neurosurgeon and bestselling author Henry Marsh.
