How to be a Brit [antikvár]

George Mikes was born in 1912 in Siklós, Hungary. He studied law and received his doctorate in Budapest University. He became a journalist and was sent to London as a correspondent to cover the Munich erisis. He came for a fortnight but stayed on and made England his home. During the Second World War he broadeast for the BBC Hungárián Service where he remained until 1951. He continued working as a freelance critic, broadeaster and writer until his death in 1987. In 1946 he published How to be an Alién which went into thirty editions and identified the author as a humorist writer, although he had not intended the book to be funny. His other books include Űber Alles, Little Cabbages, Shakespeare and Myself, Italy for Beginners, How to Unité Nations, How to be Inimitable, How to Scrape Skies, How to Tangó, The Land of the Rising Yen, How to Run a Stately Home (with the Duke of Bedford), Switzerland for Beginners, How to be Decadent, TsiTsa, English Humour for Beginners, How to be Poor, How to be a Guru and How to be God. He wrote a study of the Hungárián Revolution and is alsó the author of A Study of Infamy, an analysis of the Hungárián secret political police system, Arthur Koestler: The Story of a Friendship and The Riches of the Poor: A Journey round the World Health Organization. On his seventieth birthday, in 1982, he published his autobiography, How to be Seventy. Nicolas Bentley was born in Highgate in 1907 and educated at University College School, London, and Heatherley School of Art. He was an artist, author, publisher and illustrator of more than sixty books - including works by Hilaire Belloc, T. S. Eliot, Dámon Runyon, Lawrence Durrell and many others. He died in 1978.