Alan knows everything, knows everyone, and writes beautifully too.RICHARD OSMANThe man with the contents of the Oxford English Dictionary stored just above his left eyebrow ... and hes quite funny too.RORY CELLANJONESA gorgeous, funny tour of the British Isles as seen from the clouds.KONNIE HUQFor fans of THE ETYMOLOGICON and VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS, a delightfully damp tour of the British Isles. Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real muggafisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our islands have hundreds of words and phrases for rain, some selfexplanatory and others that really leave us scratching our heads. From a light smirr in Aberdeen to a "its raining knives and forks!" in the Brecon Beacons, each type of rain tells a story about the people and places it falls on.In this delightfully damp tour of the British Isles, writer and puddlesplasher Alan Connor digs deep into the meaning and quirky histories of over one hundred words for precipitation. He gets caught in a plash in Northumberland, crashes a foxs wedding in Devon and ponders the phenomenon of Britswhopicnicinthecar, in this charming and witty celebration of our very British obsession.

Binding: Hardback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: CBX; Weight: 436 g; Dimensions: 224 x 143 x 20

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