{"id":30886,"date":"2024-11-08T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30886"},"modified":"2024-11-07T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:31:00","slug":"the-british-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/11\/08\/the-british-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"The British Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Herv\u00e9 Bourhis<\/strong>, translated by James Hogan<\/strong> (NBM)
\nISBN: 978-1681123424 (HB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Pourquoi pas, non?… 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite a thousand years of \u201cnot getting on\u201d, Britain and France are neighbours who have bathed and basked in the glow of each other\u2019s culture, arts, achievements… and failures… with remarkable constancy and consistency. For as long as each nation has existed, this peculiarly dysfunctional relationship has periodically cross-fertilised the lives and adventures and judgements of all of us. We love their stuff and apparently they\u2019re pretty cool about ours. The strange state of affairs (oh tee hee!) has also baffled countless observers from other countries and probably always will. C\u2019est la vie, innit<\/em>?
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\nNow and here, music writer, graphic novelist, culture vulture and avowed anglophile Herv\u00e9 Bourhis (The Little Book of Rock<\/strong>) has encapsulated his – possibly forbidden – love for les anglaise<\/em> and all their works in a fabulously eclectic years-by-year catalogue of events, achievements, style-&-fashion forays, music-&-movie moments, and less definable landmarks. Beginning in 1962, and meandering all the way to 2022, the best, worst, weirdest, and wildest pub talking points, quiz question fodder and modern minutia of pop culture have been assiduously counted and crafted into a dossier of our innate spiffiness.
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\nThese are all graphically combined with listicles, celebrity call-outs, name checks, scandals, disasters, tragic passing (and a few who are probably still feeling someone\u2019s boots dancing on their tombs, even through six feet of well-packed Albion dirt) and all the kinds of True Brit bewilderments that provoke our always astonished amis<\/em> to doff their berets, scratch their pomaded bonces and mutter \u201csacred blue et focquinelle<\/em>\u201d…<\/p>\n

Joking, japing and jesting aside, this is a superbly astute, stunning researched and wittily wrought dose of weaponised memorabilia, stuffed with fun facts captivating drawn and even offers the best index I have ever seen in its \u2018Britbook Playlist\u2019<\/em> section. This is something so many boomers deserve in their wrinkled gabardine (or latex: live and let live sez me) stocking this year.
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\nI\u2019ve been around – if not always awake – for all of the stuff cited here, and while I can\u2019t say it was all as much fun as what\u2019s on show on these crisp, fab-hued pages, it does stir memories, bouts of quiet pride and an odd urge to mumble \u201cbeen there, did that, gottit, mum threw it away,\u201d and \u201cwhere are they now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gosh, I say! Do you think the Germans could be induced to commit their thoughts on how terrific we\u2019ve been to paper too?
\nLe Britbook, \u00a9 DARGUAD 2023, by Herv\u00e9 Bourhis, All rights reserved. \u00a9 2024 NBM for the English translation.<\/p>\n

The British Invasion <\/strong>is published on November 12th<\/sup> 2024 and is available for pre-order now.
\nMost NBM books are also available in digital formats so for more information and other great reads see\u00a0http:\/\/www.nbmpub.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Herv\u00e9 Bourhis, translated by James Hogan (NBM) ISBN: 978-1681123424 (HB\/Digital edition) Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Pourquoi pas, non?… 9\/10 Despite a thousand years of \u201cnot getting on\u201d, Britain and France are neighbours who have bathed and basked in the glow of each other\u2019s culture, arts, achievements… and failures… with remarkable constancy and consistency. For … <\/p>\n

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