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You are Awful (but I Like You)
Tim Moore
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Description for You are Awful (but I Like You)
Paperback. Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry? Could you stick up for Stoke or big-up Bracknell? Can you handle the thrill of Rhyl, the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil? The author takes you round all places on our beloved island that nobody wants to go to - our most miserable towns, shonkiest hotels, and silliest sea zoos. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, col. map. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry?
Could you stick up for Stoke or big-up Bracknell?
Can you handle the thrill of Rhyl, the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil?
In You are Awful, Tim Moore drives his Austin Maestro round all the places on our beloved island that nobody wants to go to – our most miserable towns, shonkiest hotels, scariest pubs, and silliest sea zoos...
But as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds he finds himself oddly smitten, and the result is a rousing, nostalgic celebration of mad, bad But I Like You Britain.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099546931
SKU
V9780099546931
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-36
About Tim Moore
Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps, Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like You). He lives in London.
Reviews for You are Awful (but I Like You)
Funny and squirmingly vivid
Daily Telegraph
There aren’t many travel writers funnier than Tim Moore
Independent on Sunday
A fine piece of comic writing...by the end of the book he is, unlike his Maestro, firing on all cylinders
Nick Lezard
Guardian
A pilgrimage to the most derelict, unlovable and forlorn parts of Britain
Independent
Hilarious
Sun
There's a true affection in the descriptions of bypasses, roundabouts and rainy caravan parks
Tom Cox
Daily Mail
Moore is...a likeable guide and a witty turner of phrases, and his plunges into local history as he tootles around in his decrepit Austin Maestro demonstrate a gift for bathos and an eye for the poetry of dereliction
Euan Ferguson
Time Out
Moore has a nice line in description...and is able to describe the many absurdities encountered on his travels with admirable detachment
Choice Magazine
Hilarious... This book will have you in stitches... What emerges is a nostalgic celebration of just how mad Britain can be (5 stars)
Hannah Britt
Daily Express
Tim Moore's wry portraits of unfashionable British towns nicely combine knockabout humour, witty one-liners and an undertow of sadness
Sally Cousins
Sunday Telegraph
Daily Telegraph
There aren’t many travel writers funnier than Tim Moore
Independent on Sunday
A fine piece of comic writing...by the end of the book he is, unlike his Maestro, firing on all cylinders
Nick Lezard
Guardian
A pilgrimage to the most derelict, unlovable and forlorn parts of Britain
Independent
Hilarious
Sun
There's a true affection in the descriptions of bypasses, roundabouts and rainy caravan parks
Tom Cox
Daily Mail
Moore is...a likeable guide and a witty turner of phrases, and his plunges into local history as he tootles around in his decrepit Austin Maestro demonstrate a gift for bathos and an eye for the poetry of dereliction
Euan Ferguson
Time Out
Moore has a nice line in description...and is able to describe the many absurdities encountered on his travels with admirable detachment
Choice Magazine
Hilarious... This book will have you in stitches... What emerges is a nostalgic celebration of just how mad Britain can be (5 stars)
Hannah Britt
Daily Express
Tim Moore's wry portraits of unfashionable British towns nicely combine knockabout humour, witty one-liners and an undertow of sadness
Sally Cousins
Sunday Telegraph