Join us in this exquisite tribute to the most mouth-watering of all British institutions as we present a guide to the UK's best greasy spoons and a dissection of exactly what it takes to make the perfect fry-up. Based on the Yahoo award-winning website, this is more than just an homage to our nation's favourite dish—the book is also an indespensible guide to the finest cafes in the UK. This book also contains the handy bean colour-wheel to do away with bean-hue concerns, a personal history of how the great British fry-up evolved, and an in depth discussion of the pros and cons of the sugar spout.

Egg, Bacon, Chips & Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great

Humor & Entertainment

Davies, Russell

Humor

HarperCollins, UK

Think you’ve got what it takes to pit your wits against some of the brightest brains in Britain? Now you can take on the challenge with this ultimate quiz containing 2000 questions from the Brain of Britain archives. Brain of Britain is in its 65th year, the longest-running of all the broadcast quiz shows open to the public in Britain. With questions covering a wide range of general knowledge topics, let Russell Davies guide you through this challenging and entertaining set of 50 quizzes. Includes a fascinating history of the program and the characters and stories that have made it so successful. An appendix offers a compelling account of the life of the program’s German-born inventor and first question-setter John P. Wynn.

BBC Radio 4 Brain of Britain Ultimate Quiz Book

Puzzles & Games

Collins

Highlighting the personal experiences of the individual, this book pro bes the private lives of people in order to fully appreciate the complex nature of society. It is a detailed analysis of sexuality and tension that seeks to overturn the cosy images of Wales and the Welsh. Russell Davies opens the book with a chapter on demography and then goes on to explore the twilight worlds of mental illness and suicide, crime and protest, sexuality and tension, religion, superstitions and popular culture.

Secret Sins

History

Americas

University of Wales Press

Hope and Heartbreak: A social history of Wales 1776-1871

A radically unorthodox portrait of the lives of the Welsh is offered to readers in this social history of Wales from 1789–1870. A large range of social subjects—from rich landlords in the south to poor peasants in the north—are discussed along with engrossing analyses of such unusual institutions as the insane asylum and the rural festival and portraits of such unspeakable persons as bastard children and wizards. By interpreting the life experiences and emotions of individual people within Welsh society, this inquiry opens up the fascinating and heretofore hidden world of Wales during the rise of industrial Europe.

Europe

A radically unorthodox portrait of the lives of the Welsh is offered in this social history of Wales from 1789–1870. A large range of social subjects—rich landlords in the south, poor peasants in the north, and such unspeakable persons as bastard children and wizards—are discussed along with engrossing analyses of such unusual institutions as the insane asylum and the rural festival. By interpreting the life experiences and emotions of individual people within Welsh society, this inquiry opens up the fascinating and heretofore hidden world of Wales during the rise of industrial Europe.

In Secret Sins, Russell Davies reveals Carmarthenshire, a rural society in southeast Wales, to have been a hotbed of debauchery, violence, and drunkenness during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. After an overview of the economic, social, and political changes in Carmarthenshire between 1870 and 1920, Davies probes the records of people’s private lives to analyze the reluctance about education in farming communities, the influence of religion, the continuation of superstitions, and the rich variety of popular culture. This meticulously researched book gives a major new appraisal of the social history of an area of rural and industrial Wales that many had heretofore believed to be thoroughly law abiding, moral, and respectable.

Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920, New Edition

Foreign Body

This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs.

Biographies & Memoirs

BLOOMSBURY

The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870–1945, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created, shaped, and drove modern Wales. Russell Davies examines a range of social forces little considered elsewhere by studies in Welsh history, accounting for the role played by the people of Wales in times of war, in the age of the British Empire, and in technological change and innovation, as the Welsh traveled the developing capitalist and consumerist world in search of fame and fortune.

People, Places and Passions: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870 - 1945, Volume 1

A biography of Ronald Searle, the cartoonist, which contains little-known facts about his involvement in various aspects of British and French public life. The author's biography of Victor Weisz, "Vicky", was published in 1987.

Ronald Searle: A Biography

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Ronald Searle is England's most famous cartoonist, and the professionals' choice. Ask any contemporary cartoonist who is the greatest in the post-war era and the unanimous reply will be, Ronald Searle of course! This volume, published to coincide with a retrospective exhibition at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London, showcases more than 200 of Searle's distinctive illustrations. Every single aspect of his great genius and range is represented: early 1940s Lilliput cartoons; harrowing first-hand sketches from Changi Gaol and the Siam-Burma Railway; 1950s St. Trinian's girls' school horrors; the inimitable Molesworth, the ultimate 1950s schoolboy; and Punch cartoons from the 1950s-1970s demonstrating that Searle is now better than ever.

Ronald Searle

Chris Beetles Ltd.

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Egg, Bacon, Chips & Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great

BBC Radio 4 Brain of Britain Ultimate Quiz Book

Secret Sins

Hope and Heartbreak: A social history of Wales 1776-1871

Hope and Heartbreak: A social history of Wales 1776-1871

Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920, New Edition

Foreign Body

People, Places and Passions: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870 - 1945, Volume 1

Ronald Searle: A Biography

Ronald Searle