An owner's manual to the English, this over-the-top comic primer by the splendidly irreverent London critic A. A. Gill includes scathing chapters on voice, humor, drink (I am an alcoholic), animals, garden, sport and class. Gill explains, rather unnecessarily that though he lives in London, for obvious reasons he spends as much time as possible abroad.  (GBR715, $24.00)

Customs, Manners & Morals