The UK : while it lasts

From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups. The I-SPY concept is very simple: it's like the 'I spy with my little eye' game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about 'something beginning with', there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to discover interesting things.

This can be alarming - but when turned into a sport, it's also fun. The United Kingdom of Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland isn't very united anymore.

Great Britain isn't very great. Or so say the wrong-headed doubters who want to talk us down!

But where else can you see Morris Dancers, men in kilts, weirdly neat gardens and aggressively jovial village fetes?

Nowhere else. And this guide helps you add to these great joys by awarding you points for seeing them.

Isn't that the pip?