{"product_id":"how-england-made-the-english-9780670919147","title":"How England Made the English","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry Mount is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmo, Amas, Amat and All That\u003c\/i\u003e, his best-selling book on Latin, and \u003ci\u003eA Lust for Window Sills \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eA Guide to British Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e. A journalist for many newspapers and magazines, he has been a New York correspondent and a leader writer for the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e. He studied classics and history at Oxford, and architectural history at the Courtauld Institute. He lives in north London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lovely book, very engaging and easy to read. There are chapters on weather and soil and stone, on the history of hedges or the making of suburbia, all of them infectious did-you-knows. Mount is a natural and enthusiastic sharer of knowledge * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eCharming and nerdily fact-stuffed * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eLively, a delight. Mount's paragraphs explode with information . . . I love all this, want more, and am given it. The sort of book, in its temperament and in its detail, that has helped to make England English * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eMount is as perceptive as he is obsessive, and time and again he skewers with unfailing accuracy some aspect of our national character * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e'Fascinating. Mount's an intelligent, funny and always interesting companion * Daily Mail *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735947981143,"sku":"9780670919147","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-england-made-the-english-9780670919147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}