Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social
Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for
Cultural Research. She is also a bestselling author of popular
social science.
Kate's other books include The Racing Tribe: Watching the
Horsewatchers and Drinking and Public Disorder (co-author with Dr
Peter Marsh).
Kate is regularly invited to speak at the major literary festivals,
as well as guest lectures and seminars at universities, institutes,
embassies, trade and professional conferences, etc. in the UK and
overseas. She gave the Christmas Lecture at the Royal Geographical
Society, and won a debate against Boris Johnson for Intelligence
Squared, among other high-profile engagements. She is frequently
quoted in the Press and interviewed on radio and television. Kate
has also been a regular columnist for Psychologies magazine.
Kate is married to the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, CBE.
Fascinating…every aspect of English conversation and behaviour is
put under the microscope.
*Western Daily Press*
A witty and eloquent writer…an affectionate homage to English
foibles.
*Metro*
An entertaining, clever book. Read it.
*Daily Telegraph*
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