- Published: 24 September 2020
- ISBN: 9780241990827
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
How to be a Brit
The hilariously accurate, witty and indispensable manual for everyone longing to attain True Britishness
- Published: 24 September 2020
- ISBN: 9780241990827
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
Brilliantly comical
Pico Iyer on 'How to Be an Alien', New York Times
I used to think that Mikes's world has gone, but it has returned to us in spades via the referendum.
Nick Fraser, The Guardian
How to be an Alien inspired me ... Some of his observations remain remarkably fresh and relevant 70 years later, but it's his tone that impressed me
Erin Moore, author of That's Not English
Full of the very best advice that any would-be Brit should need (and for those of us who have forgotten exactly how it is to be ourselves) it's a jolly good read
The Telegraph
I love it and read it cover to cover. Also has good tips for talking about the weather, not that we need them
Rachel Johnson
Mikes is a master of the laconic yet slippery put-down: "The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink"
Henry Hitchings
Brilliantly comical
Pico Iyer on 'How to Be an Alien', New York Times
Wise and witty
William Cook on 'How to Be an Alien', Spectator
This is the vital textbook for Brits, would-be Brits, and anyone who wonders what being a Brit really means. Pass me my hot water bottle, please
Dame Esther Rantzen
Bill Bryson is George Mikes' love-child
Jeremy Paxman
Very funny
The Economist
An instant classic
Francis Wheen on 'How to Be an Alien'
In all the miseries which plague mankind, there is hardly anything better than such radiant humour as is given to you. Everyone must laugh with you - even those who are hit with your little arrows.
Albert Einstein to George Mikes