Martyn Ford

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more adventurous? Perhaps you hear that someone has bought the last bag of salt in town. Do you buy a bag from him at a high price? Or try to make him give you a bag? Our world is full of these kinds of problems. They make life interesting, and sometimes very funny. These five short plays show people trying to decide what to do in unexpected or difficult situations.

When Chester discovers he can mind jump, his sister Amy wastes no time in putting his new skills to work boosting the viewing figures on her video blog. And when a TV company takes them global, he does his most daring mind jump yet, into the brain of Tito the gorilla. The trouble is, when he tries to return to his own body - it's gone! Has it been stolen? But who would want it, and why? And how come Chester suddenly has the urge to search Amy's hair for fleas? The quest to find the answers takes him on a journey beyond his wildest imagination. A fast-paced, mind-boggling and hilarious yet thought-provoking read from the author of The Imagination Box series.

Globalizácia postupne ovláda všetko na svete vrátane stravovania, spoločenských návykov a dokonca aj jazyka. Kde teda návštevník zo starého kontinentu získa nefalšované britské zážitky? Odpoveďou je sprievodca How To Be British, ktorý vtipne predstavuje tradície zdržanlivého a uhladeného národa z Britských ostrovov zbožňujúceho domácich miláčikov a čaj – hodnoty, vďaka ktorým je Británia „iná“. Okrem kultúrnych špecifík si osvojíte zaužívané frázy a zistíte, čomu sa treba v konverzácii určite vyhnúť.

Chcete se pobavit, dozvědět se něco o Velké Británii, a rozšířit si přitom slovní zásobu? Pak je tato knížka právě pro vás. Kromě všemožných kulturních kuriozit se také naučíte užitečné obraty a fráze a získáte hlubší vhled do přemýšlení a životního stylu Angličanů.