Welcome to everytown: a journey into the English mind
by Baggini, Julian.
Material type: BookPublisher: Granta 2008ISBN: 9781862079984; 1862079986.Classification number: 942 BAGSubject(s): National characteristics, English | England -- Social life and customs -- 1945-Subject: Baggini's account of the English is both a portrait of its people and a personal story about being an alien in your own land. Sympathetic but critical, serious yet witty, the book shows a country in which the familiar becomes strange, and the strange familiar.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book - Adult Paperback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 942 BAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002600388X |
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941.7082 WIL Dublin 1916: the siege of the GPO | 942 ACK The history of England | 942 ALI Exotic England: | 942 BAG Welcome to everytown: a journey into the English mind | 942 FOG English / | 942 HAN England, my England: | 942 HOR The English rebel: one thousand years of troublemaking from the Normans to the nineties |
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Baggini's account of the English is both a portrait of its people and a personal story about being an alien in your own land. Sympathetic but critical, serious yet witty, the book shows a country in which the familiar becomes strange, and the strange familiar.
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