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Reggie's Guide to Social Climbing

Reggie's Guide to Social Climbing

€10.95

by Reggie Blackrock Road

Cork’s most beautifully spoken millionaire is on a mission to help Ireland’s nouveau riche: learn to eat, drink, flirt and behave as if you were a member of Cork’s One Per Cent.

9781848409026 | Paperback | 200 pp. | Publishing: 16 October 2023

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Do you know how to pronounce turbot? Is it lemon or lime in a gin and tonic? What do you wear to a barbecue? Is it ever okay to shop in Lidl?

Reggie has all the answers to help you climb the social ladder.

A beautifully spoken billionaire, Reggie is president of COCI (The Captains of Cork Industry) and owner of a 6.4 million euro mansion on the Blackrock Road. (In Cork, not the frankly shabby one they have up in Dublin.)

It's one social climbing nugget after another, laid out in 24 simple steps, so even you should be able to follow it. (No offence.)

‘The hoots of laughter suggest [Reggie] has plenty of the audience very much on his side.’
— Irish Examiner (for the show An Evening with Reggie)
‘It shows how by being utterly local you can be national and even international at the same time. People all over the world tune in to Reggie – and now he’s being taken on to another sphere.’
— The Irish times (for the show an evening with Reggie)
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