Engel's England
Subtitle: thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man
By: Matthew Engel
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846685729
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Travel; English National characteristics; Description and travel; British & Irish history; European history
Description: Wry, rueful, funny, packed with knowledge, and, like all good reporting, entirely personal and subjective, it is simply the most enjoyable commentary on today's England that could be imagined. Sunday Times The book is a triumph and deserves an audience far beyond those infatuated with the clickety-clack of steel wheels Independent ... quirky three year quest for the essence of England. If you could bottle his wit, it would taste as sharp, rich and savoury as Worcestershire sauce on a Cornish pasty stuffed to bursting. -- Ian Finlayson Times Highly personal and very funny London Review of Books [Engel] has managed to do the seemingly impossible and find a new way to write about England ... The great pleasure in the book - for Engel as much as the reader - is in his love of the entertaining factual nugget -- Michael Prodger Financial Times Engel has the perfect light, humorous touch for the task. New Statesman Immensely enjoyable ... Engel is a wonderfully wry comic writer. -- Ian Samson The Guardian.
Notes: Includes index.

Originally published: 2014.