Watching the English (Paperback)

'An absolutely brilliant examination of English culture and how foreigners take as complete mystery the things we take for granted.' - Jennifer Saunders, The Times 

'She has not only compiled a comprehensive list of English qualities, she has examined them in depth and wondered how we came to acquire them. Her book is a delightful read.' - The Sunday Times 

'I loved the section on mobile-phone etiquette. Shrewd...I liked the chapter on English humour. This is an entertaining, clever book. Do read it and then pass it on.' - The Telegraph 

'Kate Fox's brilliant idea is to treat the British as another tribe...where she's particularly astute is in examining the exact pattern of cliches. Any study of the English must cover our class obsession, and Fox deals with the subject thoroughly.' - Harry Mount, author of How England Made the English 

'If you like this kind of anthropology (and I do) there is a wealth of it to enjoy in this book. Her observations are acute... fortunately she doesn't write like an anthropologist but like an English woman - with amusement, not solemnity, able to laugh at herself as well as us.' - The Daily Mail 

'Brilliant and hilarious' - Grayson Perry

'She is the only popular UK anthropologist of substance since the 1970s.' - Jeremy MacClancy, Professor of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University

'She's a witty and eloquent writer whose accessible book reads as a scholarly classification of our shared codes of behaviour and an affectionate homage to our foibles.' - Metro