Artist John Burningham offers his own view: idiosyncratic, intimate, playfully subversive and funny. He takes the reader through the traditional year - isolating the quirks and exploring the obsessions of English life: the love of pomp and ceremony; preoccupation with the weather; covert vulgarity and exploited eccentricity. These images are combined with snippets of text from sources as diverse as the MCC rules for "bad light stops play", the Queen's Christmas speech and the Cruft's dog show roll of honour. He distils the essential strengths, weaknesses, frustrations and delights that epitomize the English. John Burningham is twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and wrote "Around the World in Eighty Days".
- ISBN10 0224023500
- ISBN13 9780224023504
- Publish Date 29 October 1992
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 120
- Language English