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Uncle Dysfunctional - Uncompromising Answers to Life's Most Painful Problems (Paperback, Main): A.A. Gill Uncle Dysfunctional - Uncompromising Answers to Life's Most Painful Problems (Paperback, Main)
A.A. Gill; Illustrated by Gerald Scarfe; Edited by Alex Bilmes; Introduction by Alex Bilmes 1
R338 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire's resident advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to the largest and smallest issues of our time.

50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland (Paperback, Digital original): Allan Brown 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland (Paperback, Digital original)
Allan Brown; Foreword by A.A. Gill 1
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in. Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They're all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors. 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory.

The Angry Island - Hunting the English (Paperback, New ed): A.A. Gill The Angry Island - Hunting the English (Paperback, New ed)
A.A. Gill 2
R335 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of England and the English The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges. They're incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy and fractious. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings. In this hugely witty, personal and readable book, A.A. Gill looks anger and the English straight in the eye.

The Angry Island - Hunting the English (Paperback): A.A. Gill The Angry Island - Hunting the English (Paperback)
A.A. Gill
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in "The Angry Island, " A. A. Gill argues that, in fact, it is plain old fury that is the wellspring for England's accomplishments.

The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time. They're incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy, and fractious. They can be mildly annoyed, really annoyed and, most scarily, not remotely annoyed. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. The English itch inside their own skins. They feel foreign in their own country and run naked through their own heads.

Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, cul-de-sacs and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken -- just so there'll be no misunderstandings.

"The Angry Island" by turns attacks and praises the English, bringing up numerous points of debate for Anglophiles and anyone who wonders about the origins of national identity. This book hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island.

Previous Convictions - Assignments from Here and There (Paperback): A.A. Gill Previous Convictions - Assignments from Here and There (Paperback)
A.A. Gill
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Critic, essayist and cultural savant A.A. Gill is probably the most widely read columnist in Britain. His books "The Angry Island" and "A.A. Gill is away" have found delighted fans in America as well, and sparked a loyal following.

His new book of travel essays, "Previous Convictions, " ranges from Gill's nearby domestic locales of Glastonbury and the English countryside to Haiti, Guatemala, Pakistan and exotic, dangerous, downtown Manhattan. In this collection of notes from the corners of the globe, and sometimes from the edge of sanity, he confesses about his travels far and wide, "The more I see of the world, the less I think I understand. Familiarity breeds even more astonishment. The world just gets wider and deeper and weirder."

These pieces are wickedly funny, sometimes pointedly -- even purposely -- critical of many cultures and traditions, and always edifying and enchanting. As an adventurer and as a writer, Gill never disappoints; while he may take others to task for their customs, habits, idiosyncrasies and plain bad taste, his own indefatigable curiosity keeps him going back again and again for more, and provides us with spectacular entertainment along the way.

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