British as a Second Language

David Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life. At the age of eighteen he came to Britain, the mother country; the country he had read about in Punch; the country he had seen in films such as Chariots of Fire. Would it be the noble, educated, admirable United Kingdom he had been led to expect?

He was in for a very big shock indeed.

"I could not have been less prepared had I spent my life up to that moment listening to thirty-year-old broadcasts of the Light Programme".

In this timely follow-up to the critically acclaimed Tick Bite Fever, David Bennun shows us our own country through the eyes of an alien. Via his matchlessly witty turn of phrase, we follow his progress as a novice Briton, his brushes with Bohemia, his misadventures in search of shelter, his discovery of British food, and his horrors at entering the world of work.

In British As A Second Language, David Bennun mercilessly picks Britain apart at the seams and uncovers a contradictory nation as bizarre as any in the known world...
 

Author: David Bennun

Publisher: Ebury Press

Released Date: 2005

ISBN: 9780091900342