People keep asking whether James May’s latest tome is, as they say, “the highest form of flattery”.
What do you think?
Frank Coles 2009: How to Drive a Tank…and Other Everyday Tips for the Modern Gentleman.
James May 2010: How to Land an Airbus A330 and Other vital skills for the Modern Man.
Our B-title was Modern Man funnily enough.
I’m sure Mr May’s effort will run year-on-year in the stocking stakes. It’s already spawned a TV show. And whether it’s flattery or not when you’re just breaking in, like me, it sure kills any hope of a book two in that particular series.
Ah well, I’ll guess I’ll just have to come up with another original idea. In the mean-time it’s great to hear that Tank regularly gets passed around the dorms of Britain’s boys’ schools as a must-read.
Thank you readers for writing in.
by 
Writer, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Father.
Funnily enough, when I was at school two of my favourite books were “How to Build a Flying Saucer and Other Ideas in Speculative Engineering” and the James Bond companion (or something like that) which told me how to get out of various scrapes and still have my martini shaken, not stirred! Maybe you just restarted an age-old genre. I speak as a proud owner of your book… 😛