Jonathan Rice Livres

'I have distilled the accumulated wisdom of years of candlelight suppers and charity sub-committee meetings in creating this tastefully designed book which will help you live your life in the way I expect you to... Read it and please don't let me down any more.' Mrs. Hyacinth Bucket"Keeping Up Appearances" is a book of etiquette on modern social behaviour. As a book on etiquette it delves into what to do and what not to do in times of social indecision.

With a song title index and a statistical facts and feats section, plus 150 new photographs, 'The Guinness Book of No 1 Hits' reveals the who, why, when, and where of each chart-topper.

Golf has been considered a strange pastime, by players and non-players alike, since its inception in Scotland half a millennium ago. In Curiosities of Golf , Jonathan Rice has turned up the truly unusual in the course of the game's history— Chico the dog, who was made a member of the Waihi Golf Club in New Zealand because of his "infallible gift for finding balls;" Bob Hope, who shot a hole-in-one at the age of 90; King Hassan of Morocco, whose personal golf course was turned into a prison camp during a coup attempt; or the course in Uganda where balls may be placed no nearer the hole without penalty if they land in a hippo's footprint measuring more than 18 inches in diameter and two inches deep.

Individuality and selfishness are as welcome as a sumo wrestler barging the line at a buffet. I’m Japanese and I like it. Many things in this little book are frighteningly so true. Entertaining, well observed and fairly evaluated from the Western cultural perspective. It’s not really a ‘guide book’ as such. Instead, it gives you a brilliant cultural comparison, their mentality and the physical environment that affects their world view. If you are going to stay in Japan for more than 1 month and hoping to mingle with local people, this book would give you some subtle but really important insights to the ‘why’ of their behaviours. Like any other value system, the Japanese culture was like an invisible & odourless gas that I was breathing without knowing it – till I read this book.’ Review from a Japanese now in the UK

Warum der private Golfcamp von König Hassan von Marokko während eines versuchten Attentates in ein Gefängnis umfunktioniert und dem König fast zum Verhängnis wurde? Wie Dank eines Erdbebens das Einlochen auf einen Schlag gelang? Warum Hund Chico 1971 Ehrenmitglied im Waihi Colf Club in Neuseeland wurde? Diese und viele andere kuriose Golfgeschichten erzählt auf höchst amüsante Weise Jonathan Rice in 'Golfkuriositäten' Golfgeschichten über die Größten und Besten sind hier ebenfalls versammelt: So über Bob Hope, der noch im Alter von neunzig Jahren auf einen Schlag einlochte, über den englischen Premierminister Arthur Balfour, der gleich dreimal das 'Parlaments-Handicap ' gewann oder über die japanische Prinzessin Asuka, die 1929 im 'Ladies Challenge Cup Miyanosihita' Vize-Weltmeisterin wurde. Golfkuriositäten ist eine höchst unterhaltsame Sammlung von zumeist grotesken Anekdoten, die auf wahren Begebenheiten basieren.