The Angry Island - Hunting the English

The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time. They have, throughout history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels. In this book Gill hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island...