Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education

Informationen zum Autor Michael Simkins trained at RADA. He has appeared in more than 70 plays, stage highlights include A View from the Bridge at the National Theatre as well as musicals Chicago and Mamma Mia . He also directed Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Greenwich Theatre. He has made countless TV appearances - recent credits include Foyle's War and My Family - as well as turns on the silver screen in such films as Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He has worked with luminaries as diverse as Anthony Perkins, John Malkovich, Michael Gambon and Buster Merryfield. He lives with his actress wife Julia in London. Klappentext The bestselling author of Fatty Batter is back with a hilarious tale of a Brit travelling through France in a quest for Gallic elan and savoir-faire. Will he go from being a scotch-egg eating English provincial to a champagne-sipping worldly sophisticate in the process? Zusammenfassung Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Simkins
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780091927530
• ISBN: 978-0-09-192753-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Europe; France, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Europe / France