Penguin Books Ltd.

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it.

Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures. Spanning ten years and all forty-seven prefectures, Chris takes us from the lush rice fields of the countryside to the frenetic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a mortifying experience at a love hotel and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun.

• Forfatter: Chris Broad
• Publisert: 2024
  
• Antall sider: 305
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781804992227

From ancient rolling stock to patchy service, stale sandwiches to the wrong kind of snow, British Rail - our last great state-owned organisation to be privatised - has received a terrible press. But after its controversial 1948 creation, British Rail was actually an innovative powerhouse that over five decades transformed the UK, creating one of the fastest regular rail services in the world.

Award-winning journalist Christian Wolmar takes us from promise to punchline, exploring British Rail's birth into post-war austerity, the many battles and struggles to evolve what many considered to be a dinosaur, and how, at the height of its success, the service was misunderstood and unfairly maligned, ruthlessly broken up and privatised.

• Forfatter: Christian Wolmar
• Publisert: 2023
  
• Antall sider: 392
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781405946278

THE NO 1 IRISH BESTSELLER and hilarious follow-up to the smash-hit romantic comedy Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling. 'Should come with a health warning. Ten pages in my face hurts from grinning' Sunday Independent 'Hilarious and life-affirming, this is just the book to banish the winter blues' - Red (Best books of 2018) __________You can take the small-town girl out of the big city - but can you take the big city out of the girl? Job.

Flat. Boyfriend. Tick.

Tick. Tick. Aisling (seems) to be winning at life.

But life has other ideas. Fired. Homeless.

Dumped. Tick. Tick.

Tick. When everything comes crashing down around her, moving back in with her mam seems like a disaster. But might returning to her roots provide the answers Aisling's looking for? ___________WINNER OF POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 - IRISH BOOK AWARDS'With its ability to have you laughing out loud one minute and crying the next, this is a joyful, emotional, heartfelt, hilarious romp of a novel' Heat 'My neck hurts from nodding along in recognition at the universal wisdoms.

There's a smile in every page, some genuinely hilarious moments, and so much heart' Sunday Independent'Fans will be thrilled to be reunited with country girl Aisling as she navigates yet more life changes. It's stuffed with laughs, but made me cry' Daily Mail Praise for Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling' Comparisons with Bridget Jones are spot on' Independent-The year's funniest book' Hello-There aren't enough words for how much I love it' Marian Keyes

• Publisert: Nov. 2018
• Antall sider: 384
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780241361757