Bøker av Stephen Clarke

What are the French really like?Paul West, a young Englishman arriving in Paris to start a new job, is about to find out.

Englishman Paul West has just received an offer he can't refuse: two weeks in the sun, all expenses paid, with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday M, as Gloria likes to be known, is down south to report on caviar trafficking - but it soon becomes obvious that she's interested in something a lot more fishy than caviar.

Acts as a guide on how to get what you really want from the French. This title provides advice on useful phrases.

"Some really excellent one-liners and a great story." Ian Moore, author, Death & Croissants."This novel is hysterical!" Rebecca Leffler, writer and Creative Consultant on the Netflix TV series Emily in Paris,.By the author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.Englishman Paul West is living in Paris (where he arrived long before Emily, by the way) and he's gearing up for the 2024 Olympics.Paul accepts a job with a French group who are campaigning to get pétanque adopted as an official Olympic event. In Paul's opinion, throwing lumps of lead around while drinking pastis is barely a sport - it's more an excuse for Provençal men to avoid cooking dinner. But he needs the cash.Meanwhile Paul falls in love with a French tech genius - who thinks he's an idiot (which, compared to her, he is) - and he tangles with his treacherous ex, Elodie.Paul also applies for French nationality and has to embark on a war of attrition with France's Napoleonic bureaucrats.In the background, Paul's friend Jake the grunge poet decides that the Olympics and Paralympics discriminate against lazy people, and invents the "Nolympics".Let the fun and games begin.

Hayden Keyes is back in the second thrilling installment of Hayden and the Knights! A lot has changed since Hayden pulled Excalibur from the stone last year during the Battle for the Magic Hollow. It turns out that owning a legendary sword is kind of like carrying around a monster-homing beacon everywhere you go. Not pleasant. Fortunately, Hayden's become something of a monster slayer and doesn't have much to worry about. At least until Excalibur's power starts to falter, that is. When a mysterious poison pollutes the Lady of the Lake's magical waters, the Knights of the Round Table must band together more than ever if they hope to fend off this evil before it irreversibly destroys their home. Without the full power of Excalibur on his side, Hayden starts to wonder if he is strong enough for the task. Reunite with all your favorite characters in this epic adventure which takes you far beyond the protective walls of the Magic Hollow and deep into the wilds of Between as Hayden and his friends depart on a quest for the fabled Heart Spring at the Origin of Magic.

Who needs a gym when you have Scotland?We all have goals, ambitions and dreams, but How do you overcome the obstacles you find in the way? How do you kick your negativity to the kerb? How do you become who you want to be?BY STICKING TO THE DAMN PLANWith hundreds of videos, thousands of followers and millions of views, The Kilted Coaches, Stephen Clarke and Rab Shields, are no strangers to living their lives in high definition. But now they reveal how to become HD in every aspect of your life: bigger, louder, more colourful than ever, and unmistakeably you. In a characteristically Scottish blend of advice and banter, The Kilted Coaches channel their years of experience as life coaches and weight loss experts into bite-sized nuggets of advice designed to build confidence, positivity and ultimately that elusive future self. Always down to earth (sometimes very literally), they demonstrate that whoever you are, wherever you are, you can win each day. In fact, we‿re all just folk with our own lives and commitments, and every step towards health and happiness is a success. So, stick to the plan and win your life ‿ even if you don‿t have a kilt (but it helps).

Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched.

Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out ... While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine.

THE POST-BREXIT EDITION - brand new chapters with extra EU chaos for Englishman Paul West. An Englishman, Paul West, goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP. Can he even pronounce the word 'Marseillaise'?And as Paul contemplates his own personal Brexit, the whole of Brussels seems to be going into meltdown ...

The Duke of Wellington was beaten, they say, and then the Prussians jumped into the boxing ring, breaking all the rules of battle. In essence, the French cannot bear the idea that Napoleon, their greatest-ever national hero, was in any way a loser. Especially not against the traditional enemy - les Anglais.

Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He spoke French more elegantly than English. He was the first ever guest to climb the Eiffel Tower with Gustave Eiffel, in defiance of an official English ban on his visit. This is a biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle.

Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French.Threatened with eviction, unemployment and bankrupcy, Paul realises that his personal merde factor is about to hit the fan...

PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know ...

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses. This title draws on a remarkable array of surviving images of the Printing House, many of them newly discovered and previously unstudied.

A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions:_________________What is the best way to scare a gendarme?

Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. This title features new annoyances inflicted on the French, including Napoleon's banned chamber pot, Louis XIV's painful operation, Anglo-French jibes during the 2012 London Olympics, and, French niggles about William and Kate's royal wedding.