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Overview‘Funny, touching and ludicrously British.’ India Knight ‘Makes Christmas slightly less awful’ Al Murray A Very British Christmas is a twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest aspects of the Christmas holiday, with cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who’ve eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale. The essential Christmas stocking filler for every Brit who’s ever found themselves on a deflating air bed in their parents’ spare room wedged up against the washing machine come Christmas Eve and wondering why this Christmas, just like every year, doesn’t look like the ones on the telly. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rhodri MarsdenPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: HQ Edition: ePub edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.190kg ISBN: 9780008256753ISBN 10: 0008256756 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 November 2018 Audience: General/trade , General , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'Funny, touching and ludicrously British.' India Knight Reviews for Rhodri's previous work: 'Love it. It's like a comedy toilet book written by Kafka' Jon Ronson 'Very funny' Al Murray 'A hilarious little book' Heat magazine `Funny, touching and ludicrously British.' India Knight Reviews for Rhodri's previous work: 'Love it. It's like a comedy toilet book written by Kafka' Jon Ronson `Very funny' Al Murray `A hilarious little book' Heat magazine Author InformationRhodri Marsden is a writer and musician based in London. A columnist for The Independent for more than a decade, he writes features, books and opinion pieces about subjects as varied as bad dates, rude place names, USB cables, crumpets, perfume and anxiety. He plays in hardy perennial post-punk band Scritti Politti and Britain’s best-loved TV theme covers band Dream Themes, and he won the under-10 piano category at the 1980 Watford Music Festival with a scintillating performance of a piece called ""Silver Trumpets"". Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |