You Really Couldn't Make It Up: More Hilarious-But-True Stories From Around Britain

Jack Crossley

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782191490
• Year: 2014

After the runaway success of You Couldn't Make It Up, Jack Crossley returns with his latest cornucopia of wonderful anecdotes and strange goings-on from around the British Isles. In his many years as a newspaper journalist, Jack Crossley has collected literally thousands of these strange but true newspaper items. They are stories that you wouldn't believe if they weren't written down in black and white. You Really Couldn't Make It Up is a wonderful collection of irresistible whimsy, a testament to Great Britain's lasting legacy of eccentricity, bizarre bureaucracy and confounding stubbornness!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Mixed Messages: Signs of the Times
• Chapter 2: Medical: What’s Up, Doc?
• Chapter 3: Politics: Order, Order
• Chapter 4: Legal: Law and Disorder
• Chapter 5: Britishness: Quintessentially British
• Chapter 6: Eccentric: Where British is still Best
• Chapter 7: Over Fifties: Golden Oldies
• Chapter 8: Language: My Word
• Chapter 9: Drinking: Drink to me Only
• Chapter 10: Royalty: Royal Flush
• Chapter 11: Animal Magic
• Chapter 12: Media Madness
• Chapter 13: Religious: Let us Pray
• Chapter 14: Sport: This Unsporting Life
• Chapter 15: Class: A Touch of Class
• Chapter 16: Nine to Five: It’s off to Work we Go
• Chapter 17: Education, Education, Education …
• Chapter 18: Council Daze
• Chapter 19: Food for Thought
• Chapter 20: Transport: Keeping Britain Moving
• Chapter 21: Love and Marriage: From Miss to Mrs. Is this what bliss is?
• Chapter 22: Motoring: Driven to Distraction
• Chapter 23: Afterlife:Life’s a Bitch and then you Die
• Chapter 24: Army Life: Barmy Army
• Chapter 25: Christmas: Let Nothing you Dismay
• Chapter 26: Odds and Sods
• About the Author
• Copyright