A Hilarious Guide to British Culture: From Apologising to Wimbledon

F.M: An excellent read. Very funny and at the same time quite real. It prepared me for the test at the end of the book to see how well I understood the Brits !

United Kingdom on Sep 24, 2023

Graveyard Ghost: I'm a Texan but I've spent time in the UK. This book seems true about how Brits think, speak and act. I laughed so hard I nearly hurt myself lol. I would give it 10 stars if I could, but instead I'll give it ten 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

United States on Jul 06, 2023

p j smith: A good start toward pretending you are a british .keep you powder dry and chin up and carry on more please

United States on May 15, 2023

HG13: Bought this as a gift for my friend who was visiting the uk for the first time and it goes in to depth of all things Britain! It’s quite wordy though, rather than a fun quick read.

United Kingdom on May 06, 2023

Rainerjosef: Oft aber zu sehr orientiert an den wohlbekannten Klischees und deshalb auf Dauer nur mäßig unterhaltsam.

Germany on Apr 13, 2023

Mohd Adnan: I like the way it was presented. Good for foreigners travelling and making friends with the British

United States on Feb 25, 2023

Kindle Customer Dont waste your money. This is not a book merely an introduction to chsracters that: I really like this writer's style, his slightly manic take on life. Having read four of his books describing his travels I found this one a little different, but no less entertaining. I will certainly look for any other titles by Adam Fletcher.

United Kingdom on Feb 06, 2023

CalBrit: If ever a book will cheer you up, this is it! After the first chapter I told myself, "I must order more to give to my friends." I am English, living in the U.S. It took a while to be proud of this, since the English are not as identifiable as the Scots, Welsh or Irish. We don't have a national costume or a national dance (I refuse to count Morris Dancing), or even a common dialect. This little well-written book has managed to reveal what makes us all Brits and proud of it. Long live our little island nation and all its idiosyncracies, and thank you, Adam Fletcher.

United States on May 08, 2022

J-Lew: I’m part British and grew up abroad. I moved back to the UK permanently 4 years ago, and whether the/we British like it or not, the book describes us pretty well. This becomes especially obvious when you’ve spent most of your life in another country - a country that’s only a 2-hour flight away but yet so very different.

The book is a loving look at Britishness, I feel. I don’t sense any self-hate or anti Patriotism in there - on the contrary. We do many odd things in Britain, and I think that’s why I, the author, and many people around the world love us so much. We’re quirky and fun, and this book, sometimes through the art of humorous exaggeration, sure, highlights what is so stereotypically British. There are stereotypes about all countries and peoples, usually rooted in some sort of truth, and it’s a wonderful thing when this is embraced and accepted instead of denied and shamed. We should all be proud of our cultural distinctiveness, even when it’s silly. This book does a great job, and Adam Fletcher has a wonderful writing style and sense of humour.

United Kingdom on Jun 19, 2020

James Field: Like the author, Adam Fletcher, I'm also an expatriate. He escaped to Germany, I to Norway. In my case, it wasn't an active choice. I was working abroad for an English company, fell in love with a local girl, and stayed. I don't know, but I suspect there are more genuine Brits living abroad than there are in England these days.

Anyway, about the book. Mr Fletcher describes Britain as I remember it thirty-five years ago, and I can voucher for his (often embarrassing) perception of the British culture. One observation he didn't mention was our love of self-irony, something he shows with droll clarity in this book.

However, I did notice a touch of horrified disapproval in some of Mr Fletcher's renderings and I frequently went into defence mode. Despite our (perceived) nonchalance, I expect foreigners will find this book more amusing than the British. Still, we have to keep a stiff upper lip and laugh along out of politeness. We may have been a great nation in the past, but as Vladimir recently said so charmingly about us: we're nothing more than an insignificant little island off the coast of France.

So cheers to that, and cheers to this quaint guide to our...

United States on May 27, 2020