Guy Browning è un umorista, oratore e regista cinematografico. La sua scrittura si addentra spesso nelle assurdità della politica d'ufficio e dell'ascesa sociale, sezionando queste dinamiche con arguzia e acuta osservazione. Porta un occhio attento al comportamento umano e una voce distintamente umoristica nel suo lavoro.
This book offers practical tips for navigating everyday challenges, such as managing your arm when hailing a taxi, sharing a romantic bath without bumping into taps, and giving clear directions. It's designed to make life easier by providing useful rules for common situations.
On the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, bestselling-humorist Guy Browning - the author of the phenomenally successful Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade - has a bash at his own immortal document: a British Bill of Rights, celebrating the right bits of Britishness.
From the bestselling author of Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade and Never Push When You Can Pull comes a new volume of answers to life's most troublesome questions.
Guy Browning, author of the No. 1 bestselling Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade and popular longstanding Guardian columnist, finally turns his unique attention to a rich new comic seam - his own deeply eccentric and far-flung upbringing. Weaned on maps, educated by maps, surrounded by maps and ever so slightly in love with maps, Guy Browning presents a selection of intriguing and quirkily annotated cartographic gems to chart his unsteady progress from pewling toddler to pewling young man via the furthest corners of the Alps, Niagara Falls, the Mediterranean, Central America and darkest Chipping Norton. Maps of My Life revisits the richly comic highways, byways and unpaved tracks of Guy's unusually peripatetic early years, peopled with unforgettable relatives, friends and foe such as the Fatted Calf, the Sainted One, Langton Machoko and Marshal LaPoulette... Beautifully produced with full-colour maps throughout, Maps of My Life is one of the funniest autobiographical travel memoirs since Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
This book does for the office what "Never Hit a Jellyfish With A Spade" did for the rest of life. It lets you into all the little secrets, tips and rules for surviving the office jungle. "Office Politics" explains in detail all the many reasons why you prefer lying under your duvet to sitting at your desk. In the book you'll learn all bosses from hell, with egos even larger than their company cars; how office pot plants survive on a diet of cold coffee and furniture polish; how to avoid responsibility for work, pass the buck and take the credit all at the same time; what your favourite sandwich fillings say about you as a person; and tell-tale signs of office affairs and what to do if you think you might be having one. "Office Politics" makes sense of all the things in office life that make no sense at all. So fill out your purchase order form, cancel all meetings and settle back for a read that's almost as hilarious as the MD's dancing at the Christmas party.
Have you ever queued, exasperated by the repeated cry of 'next' and asked the man in front, 'Are you deaf?' only to discover that he is? Who hasn't tried to slip under the covers before the lover of their dreams discovers they're wearing chewing-gum-grey pants? If you have then Guy Browning is here with an invaluable guide to surviving such toe-curling moments. His advice includes: What to do when you discover the man you beeped, flashed and swore at for driving too slowly is your girlfriend's father who you'll meet for the first time that night. How to convince your friends that shoes with loo-paper attached to the soles are now a cutting-edge fashion statement. How to argue, persuasively, that George Eliot is in fact a man.
or fans of Adrian Mole and Nick Hornby and readers of all ages, this is a novel for the listicle generation.
The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death – they're all terrifically exciting but they happen whether we like it or not. It's the little things in life that cause the most trouble. How do you deal with the million and one everyday challenges? Help is at hand. For the first time you can get intelligent practical tuition on the level you need it. The trivial level. After years of exploring the small pockets in life's backpack in his celebrated 'How to' column in the Weekend Guardian, Guy Browning has the rules that can help you move safely and effortlessly through the micro-chicanes on life's byways, including: • •Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it? •In a monogamous relationship is it morally acceptable to tuck your side of the duvet in? •What's the clearest way of giving directions to a place you've never heard of? •What is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it? •In breaststroke what do you do with your head when it's underwater?
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From the basics to the boardroom; let The Pocket Guru help you become the best in the business. Containing instant, powerful advice on key business topics, tasks and themes each offering immediate answers and super-fast results, this is an awesome collection of the absolutely vital, must-know points on all key business topics, delivered in really tasty, easy-to-digest, just-in-time chunks. Discover easy-to-access and user-friendly lists, key action points and vital things to remember in every high-impact, lovingly illustrated and beautifully designed double-page spread.
Watches that doubled as satnavs. Machines to massage the eyeballs of a tired businessman. An early food processor. Spectacles that included electric lights. A cigarette holder - for two cigarettes. The Victorians and Edwardians were quixotic pioneers of steampunk ingenuity, and the Maurice Collins Collection is a repository of all the bizarre by-products of their inventiveness. Join Guy Browning on a tour through this trove of Heath Robinson-esque zany gadgetry as he brings his uniquely off-kilter perspective to one of the UK's most brilliant and bizarre collections.