A perennially popular collection of colour cartoon illustrations, with accompanying texts, on the endearing oddities of our British life and character. Drawing on their many years` experience of teaching English as a Foreign Language the authors also offer the wider world a tongue-in-cheek guide on how to get around in English and at the same time make sense of our `funny ways`. It`s a gentle brand of satire, and although there`s the occasional barbed arrow for bland food, fashion disasters or dubious standards of hygiene, the tone of The ”How To Be British Collection” is more nostalgic than scornful, and the pet-loving, royal-watching, tea drinking characters that populate its pages are viewed with wry affection. Cartoons like ”How to be Polite” and ”How to Complain” have been reproduced in publications all over the world, perhaps because they put a finger on that peculiar tentativeness that foreigners find so puzzling (and so funny) about us. In order to be British, or at any rate to pass unnoticed in British society, the visitor must learn not to `make a fuss`. A fuss is something that the true Brit cannot stand.