Böcker av Matt Rudd

On paper, middle-aged men appear privileged and successful, but are they happy? No.

A hilarious field guide to the world's most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.Thanks to television documentaries by Bruce Parry and David Attenborough, we are better acquainted with the hunting rituals of the San bushmen and the mating habits of Papua New Guinean tribes than we are with the everyday lives of that most peculiar of species - the English.Matt Rudd has been getting to know this curious breed, and now you'll be able to spot the English in any number of their natural habitats - reclining on their living room sofas; getting drizzled on as they wait for the 05.37 from Sevenoaks; eating pakoras at the Birmingham Lahore Village Balti House; and dogging around Thetford Forest.In 'The English: A Field Guide', Sunday Times journalist Matt Rudd sets off on a journey to uncover what makes us, the English, tick. Hilarious, warm-hearted and surprisingly enlightening, 'The English' shines a strong searchlight on us all.

A brilliant comic novel about love, marriage, parenthood and the million tiny little things that conspire to trip you up on the rocky road to all three.William has a twelve-year-old boss bent on his destruction; the interior design duo from hell re-decorating his bathroom; and an angry ginger midget with a mean right hook on his case.Then there's the flood.And the village full of Machiavellian nutters.On the plus side, he has as a gorgeous wife and an adorable new son - and he loves them both. It's just a shame that parenthood doesn't stop him doing the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time, with catastrophic results for his small - and increasingly exasperated - family.It's very nearly too much for one man to handle.Correction. It is ENTIRELY too much for one man to handle.And that man is William Walker.