The Xenophobe's Guide to the English - Antony Miall

I first came across this range of books shortly after I had moved in with my now husband and was slowly getting used to his strange Swedish ways. Well they were strange to me anyway and there were so many things that I didn't understand about the culture, things that I didn't understand and things that I found just weird! Basically, we had gone to one of his Swedish friends for a dinner party and the host himself found it hilarious as my husband humorously explained things that I just didn't understand their Swedish ways. The host promptly left the room, came back in and passed me a book entitled 'The Xenophobe's guide to the Swedes'. I took it home and began to ...  Read the complete review

No, I don't know. Humour? Travel? Culture? All, and none, I think. Categories into which this would fit, that is. But it ought to carry a warning on its cover. "Danger. Do not open. Laughter contagion likely." I was at a friend's house when I spotted it. It was such a slim book, with such a curious title. I wasn't going to read it, of course: after all, I'd come round to visit my friends, not to sit buried in some book. Ah, what good intentions we have... I took it home with me instead. And every time I open it, I find another gem to giggle and guffaw over. The author, Antony Miall, is not ...  Read the complete review