A fête worse than death
By: by Iain Aitch
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Library Magna Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Long Preston, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780750521475
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; Social life and customs; Large type books; Manners and customs
Description: "It is one thing to expect a little weirdness when you're up a mountain with a flying saucer-worshipping religion but quite another to enter a perfectly normal Staffordshire pub and find a toe-wrestling competition where one of the contenders is dressed only in beer towels." "Yet when lain Aitch decides to spend the summer travelling round England in search of the English at leisure, he finds himself encountering the living embodiments of the phrase 'summer madness' at every turn. Planespotters, trainspotters, shin-kickers, crop-circle makers and the very British weekend Luftwaffe - Iain Aitch takes it all in his stride whether he's undertaking a Norfolk village fete crawl or receiving a marriage proposal at Stonehenge from a complete stranger." "From the Cornish villagers who float a giant pasty across a river each year to the predatory hen parties who stalk Blackpool dressed to kill, this is an insight into what it is to be English in the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Notes: "Magna Large Print Books."

Originally published: London : Review, 2003.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Bruised shins, webbed hands and tangled toes -- -- 2.; title: Stones, cold, sober -- -- 3.; title: Trains, planes and the special bus -- -- 4.; title: Slurping with the enemy -- -- 5.; title: A fete worse than death -- -- 6.; title: Where th'offence is, let the great axe fall -- -- 7.; title: Flying men and flying bricks -- -- 8.; title: It's pixies, you idiot -- -- 9.; title: Top of the crops -- -- 10.; title: Thirty bloody minutes and no monkeys? -- -- 11.; title: Beards, trunkies and the forest of faux.