An Englishman's Home Is His Car Park
Slovenliness as a Way of Life
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Gibson Square Books Ltd
Published:4th Jun '26
Should be back in stock very soon

* A regular columnist for the Oldie, Dalrymple has a dedicated and engaged readership that trusts his sharp analysis.
* Will appeal to the vast audience of Douglas Murray, and other critics of the status quo.
* Civic pride, national identity, and cultural decay are dominating headlines and dinner-table conversations
* Strong review and serialisation interest.
Theodore Dalrymple delivers a brilliantly acerbic diagnosis of Britain's cultural decay. With his signature dry wit, he exposes how everyday slovenliness-from paved gardens to civic indifference-signals a nation surrendering its spirit. Essential for readers of Douglas Murray, this sharp critique is perfectly timed to captivate the public.How did Britain become a nation seemingly addicted to indifference? In this drily witty book, Theodore Dalrymple finds a culture inclined to performative behaviour rather than results through a series of sharp and entertaining vignettes. From paved-over front gardens that become car parks to the decline of civic pride. As a humorous examination of Britain's peculiar ailment it is also a hopeful first step towards restoration.
* CRITIC, Sebastian Millbank 'A thoroughly entertaining read.... If Evelyn Waugh wove tragic satires..., Dalrymple repeats them ... as a fat, tattooed, absurdly self-forgetting country rolls blindly into the civilisational sunset.... The many absurdities, cruelties, and stupidities we now take for granted in modern life are made searingly visible.... The emperor not only has no clothes, but a pendulous belly and a very unflattering sleeve tattoo. In a society that puts up with, and even celebrates, mediocrity, ugliness and individualism, this is a refreshing corrective.'
* DAILY MAIL, Peter Hitchens 'Lays bare a litter-strewn nation... the vandalising of Britain... [and] how deeply our governing classes have surrendered.'
* TABLET 'Very funny... particularly good on the misuse of language... elegant prose meets Alexander Pope's definition of wit.'
* Virginia Ironside 'I love [this book].'
ISBN: 9781783342938
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192 pages