Advantages: It's a very good idea for a book Disadvantages: It's just a badly executed one
Despite never really expecting to, I've long enjoyed Tony Hawks' books. The humour and invention with which he manages to make a travelogue into something that is part challenge and part joke is wonderful to read and a lot of fun to boot. He's dragged m ...
Advantages: Very funny and educational Disadvantages: None
I was, I must admit, a little bit worried about this book to start with. Emblazoned on the front cover are the following words, in large, red block capitals: "HE IS A RARE COMIC TALENT" (The Times.)
I need not have worried. As it became clear from befo ...
Advantages: Funny *and* educational Disadvantages: If you've never played Monopoly forget it
A travelogue with a difference, well they all say that don’t they? In this case I think it’s true though. Tim Moore has taken his lifelong interest, some may say obsession, with the game of Monopoly out on to the streets, and set it down in a book that ed ...
Advantages: Easy enough to read, amusing anecdotes mixed with more serious stuff, nice concept Disadvantages: Awful photo reproduction, RRP too high, humour a little childish in places
...[NB: This book's correct name is The Dark Tourist.] Introduction A "dark tourist", so Dom Joly informs us in the introduction to this usually interesting and often entertaining read, is someone who deliberately seeks out destinations where unple ...
Advantages: Packed with information and the most stunning photography Disadvantages: None for me
Whilst I would enjoy travelling abroad, since meeting my husband who has a number of health issues, we feel it safer to holiday in the UK. There are so many places that we would like to visit, which unfortunately, depends upon the very unpredictable Brit ...
