Customer Reviews
Have a cuppa and put your feet up with this book - By: Snapdragon, 19 Aug 2007 
What a lovely little book, the perfect accompaniment to a nice cup of tea! Find out what your work cup says about you; whether Wagon Wheels are smalller than they used to be; why fig rolls have a 'sense of mystery' & why shortbread is a biscuit with delusions of grandeur!
I particularly enjoyed Nicey's thought about the pink wafer & fully concur that it is the biscuit equivalent of 'The Singing Detective'. The only glaring omission, for me, was the toasted teacake.
A great 'gift book' that you can dip in & out of. Funny & engaging.
Tea and Biscuits - By: Laura Nixon, 23 Apr 2007 If you like a good cup of tea with some biscuits, this is definately the book to read with it! It's a humourous book alll about the leisurely art of having a cup of tea & describes some great biscuits in detail. You'll love this if you're a fan of the website of the same name & also if you enjoy knowing random things like how many Penguins are made each day. It's an enjoyable read & worth a look.
The Halliwell of tea and biscuits - By: Nick Johnston-Jones, 11 Oct 2005 
I gobbled up this book in a sitting. In fact I was so absorbed by it I didn't even put the kettle on. The authors do a great service by marshallling legions of biscuits, new & old, & providing a superb critique of the major varieties. Barring the odd unaccountable omission (what happened to the presumptuously titled Nice biscuit, for example?) the work is very thorough & wholly digestible. Wonderful. Procure with confidence.
Torturous! - By: Robert Paul, 09 Feb 2005 I'm alllergic to dairy products so the only biscuits I can eat are gingernuts which for some reason don't contain milk or butter. I know you can get dairy free biscuits (even custard creams), but it's not the same is it? Although you can get some nice dairy free digestives.
This is a reallly comforting read. Light in tone & broken up into bite-size chapters. I would recommend it to anyone who isn't a fellow sufferer.
'How to Be Idle' by Tom Hodgkinson is similarly cheering & is just as excellent.
I treated this book like I do my biscuits - By: , 13 Nov 2004 That is, I went through alll of it, straight away. Couldn't stop. Didn't WANT to stop. I'm usuallly more of a fiction fan myself but this book was so great that I didn't put it down until I had finished. Rather like a packet of jaffa cakes. Except that this book was funny & interesting rather than spongy & chocolatey.
