Great British Losers

Great British Losers
Author: Gordon Kerr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: English wit and humour
ISBN: 9781905847563


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Britain is a nation obsessed with runners-up and near misses: the national psyche also considers failure to be heroic and success insipid, if not downright rude. In this book Gordon Kerr has assembled a veritable menagerie of British bunglers from every conceivable walk of loserdom, covering everyone from Caractacus to Lewis Hamilton.


Great British Losers
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Gordon Kerr
Categories: English wit and humour
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-01 - Publisher:

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