Download or read book Great British Losers written by Gordon Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is a nation obsessed with runners-up and near misses: the national psyche also considers failure to be heroic and success insipid, if not downright rude. In this book Gordon Kerr has assembled a veritable menagerie of British bunglers from every conceivable walk of loserdom, covering everyone from Caractacus to Lewis Hamilton.