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Award-winning journalist and editor Mark Easton takes us on a tour around modern Britain with a look at 26 subjects—one for each letter of the alphabet—and how we relate to them. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese, and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives, and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain. With each lettered chapter, the reader is invited to look at the United Kingdom in a new way: standing back to see our small islands in a global or historical context, and then diving down to scrutinize vital details that may be overlooked. Taken together, the essays reveal a Britain that cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar, and a carrot all take on new significance once you have read Britain Etc. As the UK welcomes millions of visitors to its shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the psyche of Britain; a nation's obsessions, prejudices, values, and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, what are the natives like, and how did we get to where we are?
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Mark Easton is a Glasgow-born journalist who has written and presented numerous current affairs programs and writes the award-winning BBC blog Mark Easton's UK. From 1998-2004 he was the home and social affairs editor of Channel 4, and in 2004 he became the home editor of BBC News.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
- Publication date2012
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- ISBN 13 9780857201423
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