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  • Let's Parler Franglais One More Temps

    by Miles Kington ...
    Back for a quatrième glorieuse saison with Let's Parler Franglais One More Temps, the world's most humorous language returns in style classique.Essential reading for anyone who loves wine, cheese, Paris and love – which is to say everyone – Franglais is the key to understanding our French cousins (et vice versa, pour le French who love rosbif, warm biere, et Birmingham). Franglais continues its ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Shall I Tell the Dog?

    And Other Final Musings

    by Miles Kington ...
    In "a book to make the Grim Reaper laugh," the popular English humorist faces cancer and death with his sparkling trademark wit (Michael Palin).When some people are told they have only a few months to live, they might travel around the world or write their memoirs or put their affairs in order. When it happened at the age of 66 to Miles Kington—one of England's best-loved humorists—he did what he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parlez-Vous Franglais?

    by Miles Kington ...
    Le Français, c'est difficile. Difficile? C'est impossible. C'est maddening. C'est une peine dans le neck. Mais le Franglais est une doddle…Welcome back to the absurd yet joyful world of Miles Kington's legendary Franglais guides! C'est une des grande mixtures de l'histoire, comme gin et tonique, oeuf et bacon, ou les deux Ronnies. Cette combinaison de Français et Anglais vous permet une expérience ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Welcome to Kington

    The Selected Columns of Miles Kington

    by Miles Kington ...
    The very best columns from a body of outstanding comic writing by the irreplaceable, irrepressible Miles Kington.For decades the columns of Miles Kington were a refreshing spot of lunacy in the dull acres of the world's news. From the arguments between gods past and present (as recorded in the minutes of United Deities meetings), to unlikely agony aunts, all-purpose Shakespeare plays, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Let's parler Franglais!

    by Miles Kington ...
    ‘*A true comic genius’*Ian Hislop‘*Ridiculously funny’*Joanna LumleyBonjour toutes les personnes! Welcome to the wonderful world of Franglais.The trouble with French is that there are far too few English words in it. Miles Kington – the critic, columnist, and creator of Franglais – puts that right. His magnificent new language can be understood by almost anyone who failed GCSE French. If you ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Franglais Lieutenant's Woman

    by Miles Kington ...
    The greatest classics of world literature – as retold in the incomparable language of FranglaisDid you know that Jane Austen wrote a rip-roaring football yarn called Northanger Abbey v Mansfield Park? That Murder in the Cathedral is only one of a series of murder stories featuring Inspector T.S. Eliot?That all Shakespeare’s plots were combined in one earth-shattering play called The Two Henry V’s ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The World of Alphonse Allais

    by Alphonse Allais, Miles Kington ...
    In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French. Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English, Miles Kington set himself a similar challenge. He carried it off with panache. As Max Harrison said in The Times, '... has done a difficult job well, even preserving some of Allais's puns' ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Miles and Miles

    The Selected Writing of Miles Kington

    by Miles Kington ...
    An incomparable collection of wit and wisdom from a master of comic writingAfter creating the popular Franglais! series, Miles Kington always had an ambition: to write a book in English as well.An “endlessly curious and observant hack”, as he described himself, here a gentle wit and wide-ranging intelligence are brought to bear on everything from the curious geography of Jersey to anthropological ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Let's parler Franglais again!

    by Miles Kington ...
    Franglais is back! Apprenez le Franglais en 10 secondes!A delicious second helping of the most humorous and indeed essential languages of all, Let's Parler Franglais Again! will save the day when you find yourself 'Dans le Health Food Shop' having to deal with 'Le Porte-à-Porte Salesman'. Never again will you go blank in le job interview, or when ordering une sandwich dans la boulangerie.So ... Read more

    $6.99 USD