Us and Them

What do the Americans really think of the British? A civilized people, real polite, with great novelists, or a bunch of bullish, colonial has-beens who sound like snobs? And what do the British think of the Americans? ‘Bloody marvellous’ and very underrated or stupid, arrogant and rule the world? In his first book, acclaimed artist and illustrator Paul Davis gets to grips with national stereotypes on both sides of the Atlantic. Travelling around the United States and Britain armed with pencil, notebook and his razor sharp powers of observation for visual detail and the spoken word, Davis has produced a wonderful collection of sketches which capture the nuances of appearance, tone of voice and attitude of his subjects. Davis is a master satirist with a firm grasp of the inanity of the human condition. His drawings will have you laughing out loud, but the intelligence and humour of his observations make this a book to come back to time and again.