Guy Browning is a humorist, after-dinner speaker, and film director. His writing often delves into the absurdities of office politics and social climbing, dissecting these dynamics with wit and sharp observation. He brings a keen eye for human behavior and a distinctly humorous voice to his work.
This book offers practical tips for navigating everyday challenges, such as managing your arm when hailing a taxi, sharing a romantic bath without bumping into taps, and giving clear directions. It's designed to make life easier by providing useful rules for common situations.
Guy Browning, author of the No. 1 bestselling Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade and popular longstanding Guardian columnist, finally turns his unique attention to a rich new comic seam - his own deeply eccentric and far-flung upbringing. Weaned on maps, educated by maps, surrounded by maps and ever so slightly in love with maps, Guy Browning presents a selection of intriguing and quirkily annotated cartographic gems to chart his unsteady progress from pewling toddler to pewling young man via the furthest corners of the Alps, Niagara Falls, the Mediterranean, Central America and darkest Chipping Norton. Maps of My Life revisits the richly comic highways, byways and unpaved tracks of Guy's unusually peripatetic early years, peopled with unforgettable relatives, friends and foe such as the Fatted Calf, the Sainted One, Langton Machoko and Marshal LaPoulette... Beautifully produced with full-colour maps throughout, Maps of My Life is one of the funniest autobiographical travel memoirs since Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
This book does for the office what "Never Hit a Jellyfish With A Spade" did for the rest of life. It lets you into all the little secrets, tips and rules for surviving the office jungle. "Office Politics" explains in detail all the many reasons why you prefer lying under your duvet to sitting at your desk. In the book you'll learn all bosses from hell, with egos even larger than their company cars; how office pot plants survive on a diet of cold coffee and furniture polish; how to avoid responsibility for work, pass the buck and take the credit all at the same time; what your favourite sandwich fillings say about you as a person; and tell-tale signs of office affairs and what to do if you think you might be having one. "Office Politics" makes sense of all the things in office life that make no sense at all. So fill out your purchase order form, cancel all meetings and settle back for a read that's almost as hilarious as the MD's dancing at the Christmas party.
Have you ever queued, exasperated by the repeated cry of 'next' and asked the man in front, 'Are you deaf?' only to discover that he is? Who hasn't tried to slip under the covers before the lover of their dreams discovers they're wearing chewing-gum-grey pants? If you have then Guy Browning is here with an invaluable guide to surviving such toe-curling moments. His advice includes: What to do when you discover the man you beeped, flashed and swore at for driving too slowly is your girlfriend's father who you'll meet for the first time that night. How to convince your friends that shoes with loo-paper attached to the soles are now a cutting-edge fashion statement. How to argue, persuasively, that George Eliot is in fact a man.
The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death – they're all terrifically exciting but they happen whether we like it or not. It's the little things in life that cause the most trouble. How do you deal with the million and one everyday challenges? Help is at hand. For the first time you can get intelligent practical tuition on the level you need it. The trivial level. After years of exploring the small pockets in life's backpack in his celebrated 'How to' column in the Weekend Guardian, Guy Browning has the rules that can help you move safely and effortlessly through the micro-chicanes on life's byways, including: • •Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it? •In a monogamous relationship is it morally acceptable to tuck your side of the duvet in? •What's the clearest way of giving directions to a place you've never heard of? •What is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it? •In breaststroke what do you do with your head when it's underwater?
From the basics to the boardroom; let The Pocket Guru help you become the best in the business. Containing instant, powerful advice on key business topics, tasks and themes each offering immediate answers and super-fast results, this is an awesome collection of the absolutely vital, must-know points on all key business topics, delivered in really tasty, easy-to-digest, just-in-time chunks. Discover easy-to-access and user-friendly lists, key action points and vital things to remember in every high-impact, lovingly illustrated and beautifully designed double-page spread.
Dieses Buch bietet präzise Anleitungen für alltägliche Tätigkeiten wie Aufzugfahren, Lesen und Duschen. Guy Brownings Kolumnen kombinieren britischen Humor mit amüsanten Gedanken und helfen, kleine Alltagsprobleme zu meistern.
Guy Browning arbeitet als Humorist, Redner und Filmproduzent. Lange Jahre schrieb er erfolgreich Kolumnen für den Guardian. Er lebt in Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire.
Die Listen meines Lebens Mit warmem Humor und scharfer Beobachtungsgabe schreibt Guy Browning über ein Leben. Ein herrlich normales Leben. Auf den ersten Blick ist Brownings Protagonist kein Held, erobert keine fremden Länder. Aber er hat einen ganz besonderen Blick auf die Dinge - manchmal lakonisch, immer ehrlich. Das Außergewöhnliche: Dieser Roman wird ausschließlich in Listen erzählt. In jeweils zehn Stichpunkten begleiten wir einen Mann durch sein Leben. Vom Schulhof über die erste Liebe, Ehe und drei Kinder bis zum Neubeginn. Wir erfahren von den kleinen Katastrophen genauso wie von den großen Glücksmomenten. Das ist lustig, oft sehr rührend und manchmal sogar ein bisschen weise. Und in jedem Fall: Ein Roman für alle Helden des Alltags.
Guy Browning arbeitet als Humorist, Redner und Filmproduzent. Lange Jahre schrieb er erfolgreich Kolumnen für den Guardian. Er lebt in Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire.
