A laugh-out-loud look at British life through the eyes of “one of the country’s funniest writers.” —The Guardian "That Britain made me the man I am today, I would not deny. If I were less civic-minded, though, I might sue for compensation."—David Bennun David Bennun had lived in Africa almost his whole life until, at the age of eighteen, he went to live in Britain, the mother country — the country he had read about in Punch magazine or seen in films like Chariots of Fire. He was in for a shock. “I could not have been less prepared had I spent my life up to that point listening to thirty-year-old broadcasts of the Light Programme.” In this timely follow-up to his critically acclaimed Tick Bite Fever, David Bennun shows us Britain through the eyes of an outsider. With his witty turns of phrase we follow his life as a student, his brushes with Bohemia, his troubles renting and buying property, his discovery of British food and his horrors at entering the world of work. From DIY to architecture; from sport to alcohol; from transport to music and entertainment; David Bennun brilliantly deconstructs all these aspects of life so dear to the British heart.