The Top Gear Guide to Britain

Oct 6, 2024 2:33 AM

Author:Richard Porter

For over ten years, Top Gear has been travelling all over Britain in the course of making the world’s best programme about cars, driving, and three men in smart-casual clothes shouting at each other. So, who better to assemble a guide to Britain itself with all its glories, quirks and multiple words for bread rolls?

This book is not only a guide for outsiders; it is an invaluable reference manual for Britons themselves, like a mirror held up to our very souls.* Join us then, as we travel from A-Z cataloguing and making moderately flippant remarks about every aspect of life and living in the best country in the world after New Zealand, Denmark, probably Canada and some bits of France.

*Although in this case, a mirror that has been dropped and then run over by a small lorry but don’t worry, some bits of it still just about work.

Reviews

Very funny . . . I cracked up laughing on the tube

—— Evening Standard

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—— Hello!

Literally the greatest endeavor of human creativity in the history of mankind.

—— Chris Traeger

A must-read

—— Daily Telegraph

A fascinating insight into one of the world's greatest comic double acts

—— Heat

Magnificent … makes for colourful reading. The Toxteth riots, the rise of Thatcherism and the scourge of Aids… are all here, described with real fury and grief.

—— Sunday Telegraph

The Birkenhead wit tells not only of his life but that of his creation, Lily Savage... O'Grady has such an eye for a story and for dialogue that even those who aren't interested in the finer details of geisha wigs can't fail to be engaged

—— Independent on Sunday

Funny, forthright and sharp as a knife ... O’Grady writes just as he speaks, with comedic barbs coursing through the pages

—— Daily Mirror

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—— Your Home

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