Books by Michael Booth

The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen. 54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves. Norway is the richest country on earth. This book deals with Nordic countries.

Embarking on a journey of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture, the author and his family discover future food trends and meet a cast of food heroes, from a couple lavishing love on rotten fish, to a chef who literally sacrificed a limb in pursuit of the bowl of ramen.

Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi-saturated West, as are the remarkable health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet.

Cognitive theory provides a wealth of new ideas that illuminate Shakespeare, even as he illuminates them, and the theory of blending, or conceptual integration, strikingly corroborates and amplifies both classic and current insights of literary criticism.

World-weary, distracted and more often than not the worse for wine, Michael Booth really needed to make some major changes to his life. Instead, he embarks on an over-ambitious, self-indulgent attempt to write the definitive book on Indian food, taking his wife and two young children in tow.

Shares the insider tips and secret techniques of classical cuisine.

'The next Bill Bryson.' New York TimesHaving been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, Michael Booth discovered one of the great secrets of travel literature - Andersen's A Poet's Bazaar - a fascinating travelogue through a Europe on the cusp of revolution, by an author who invented children's literature.

Danskerne er blevet kåret til verdens lykkeligste folk flere gange – og når vi for en sjælden gangs skyld ikke vinder førstepræmien, er det som regel fordi vi er blevet overgået af svenskere, islændinge, finner eller nordmænd. Man skulle tro at skandinaverne var en gruppe jublende festaber, men lykken er til at overse, torsdag eftermiddag på Knippelsbro, når regnen står i stænger og cyklisterne kæmper om kap med vandmasserne, myldretidstrafikken og fodgængernes paraplyer. Hvordan går melankoli, livslede og regnvejr i spænd med verdens lykkeligste folk?Det er hvad den engelske forfatter, journalist og klummeskriver Michael Booth har sat sig for at undersøge. Resultatet er et morsomt, spiddende men også hjertevarmt portræt af finansvikingerne fra Island, af saunafinnerne, olie-nordmændene og de evigt korrekte svenskere – men først og fremmest af de danskere, som Booth har forelsket sig i – i bogstaveligste forstand, i det han har valgt at gifte sig med én af dem og slå sig ned i kongeriget Danmark.