From Charlie Chaplin to Billy Connolly, from "Monty Python" to "The Fast Show", Britain has always been at the forefront of comedy. Leading comedians and writers honour the best from Britain's long and diverse comedic history in a collection of essays.
The greatest classics of world literature are retold in the incomparable language of Franglais. Did you know that Jane Austen wrote a rip-roaring football yarn called Northanger Abbey v Mansfield Park? That Murder in the Cathedral is only one of a series of murder stories featuring Inspector T.S. Eliot? That all Shakespeare's plots were combined in one earth-shattering play called The Two Henry V's of Verona? Or that a missing chapter from the Gideon Bible describes exactly how God came to create the first hotel? Miles Kington reduced these masterpieces, and another forty or so like them, to a manageable size. He then translated them into Franglais, a language that combines the poetry of French with the directness of English. The result is a witty and joyous compendium of the classics, told as you’ve never quite heard them before.
Book by Miles Kington
An anthology of the best comic writing in Punch from 1841 to 1991.
Much of the romance of the past centres around travel and the trade routes of the world. For hundreds of years people have crossed mountains and deserts, sailed down rivers and across seas in pursuit of conquest, trade or adventure. In this book seven travellers, well-known in different spheres, make seven journeys, recording their experiences and describing the places and the people they encounter. Colin Thubron follows the Silk road beyond the Great Wall of China to the borders of Afghanistan. Whilst Naomi James visits several of the islands which were settled by Polynesians many centuries ago. Crossing the border between the USA and Mexico, Hugo Williams goes from the First to the Third World along the Pan American Highway and through Central America by river. Miles Kington travels the Burma Road, once used by Marco Polo and later a life-line for the allies in World War II. The route taken by the Vikings between the Baltic and the Black Sea was the one followed by Noram Stone. Starting in Leningrad, he travels through Estonia and Lithuania to Kiev and then on to Yalta. And William Shawcross journeys along the old Salt road once used by traders to carry salt from the mines in the Sahara desert. Finally, in Vietnam, Phillip Jones Griffiths returns to the country where he spent nearly three years during the war.
Lavishly illustrated with b&w and color photographs by Alain Le Garsmeur. About 9.5 inches tall by 12 wide, 190 pages, index, photo endpapers.
Here is a diverse a collection of contemporary steam photographs as one cold wish for. Over 100 pictures with Keith Strickland's informative text.
Lecture essentielle pour quiconque aime le vin, le fromage, Paris et l'amour – ce qui veut dire tout le monde – Franglais est la clé pour comprendre nos cousins français. Franglais continue sa marche de force en force. Pour beaucoup de gens, c'est maintenant un mode de vie. Miles Kington était l'un des journalistes britanniques les plus renommés et les plus appréciés. Né dans le comté de Down, il a grandi au pays de Galles et a été éduqué en Écosse, ce qui était une grande erreur car il était en réalité anglais. Présentateur, dramaturge, polymathe et esprit, il a écrit des chroniques pour The Times, l'Independent, Punch et The Oldie. Ses autres titres acclamés incluent Someone Like Me, How Shall I Tell the Dog ? et The Franglais Lieutenant's Woman.
