There'Ll Always Be An England: Social Stereotypes

Description:
This is a brilliant new collection of stereotypes from the long running 'Daily Telegraph' series. In this hilariously mordant, yet touchingly sympathetic, book, no aspect of English life is spared. Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape return in sparkling form to immortalize those very English characters and situations we come across every day. For all of us, there'll always be an England, and, we're afraid, this is it...Stereotypes include: The Post Office Queue; The Cheryl Cole Wannabe; The Rebellious Congregation; The Pub Quiz Team; The Comical Dog Show; The Hateful Hosts; The Milkman; The Village Organist; and, The Pet Funeral. Praise for previous collections: 'Mather and Macartney-Snape are not so much observers, more collectors, pinning their victims like butterflies in a display cabinet ...Very enjoyable' - Michael Parkinson. 'With consummate skill the authors have once again skewered our national smugness' - Nicky Haslam. 'A dazzling combination' - Jilly Cooper.

Author Biography:
Victoria Mather is a journalist and broadcaster. As travel editor of Vanity Fair she investigates hotel heavens for the stars. She has worked for the Daily Telegraph since 1986, initially as film critic and subsequently as columnist. She is a commentator for CBS and NBC television in America, worked with Ned Sherrin on BBC Radio 4's 'Loose Ends', and has a travel column, 'Victoria's Secrets', in the Telegraph's Ultratravel section. She spends her time in either London, Isle of Wight, New York or on aeroplanes. She has one Pekingese dog, one husband and fourteen Godchildren. Sue Macartney-Snape was born in Tanganyika, educated in Australia and now lives in London. She has had several sell-out exhibitions of her work and has been acclaimed as the Wodehouse of Art.