'Brits in Spain' first achieved notoriety during the 1980s - popularly imagined as a group made up of exiled criminals, drunken hooligans and leathery looking pensioners - welcome to 'Little England'! The British on the Costa Del Sol is the very first book to study this British expatriate community in any great depth and, through use of interviews with members of this community, paints a far more complex picture of its members. In doing so the author explodes the popularly held stereotype of 'Brits in Spain'. What emerges is a rich account of who migrates, their reasons for migration and the day to day realities of expatriate life. "her account not only fills and ethnographic gap with respect to this particular community but also draws attention to the field of leisure migration...O'Rielly's study [is] both welcome and necessary." -american ethnologist, volume 29 number 4 november 2002 "As the first major ethnographic study of British migrants in Spain, "The British on the Costa Del Sol is to be welcomed for the light it sheds on an important but hitherto poorly researched subject. It is a valuable addition to the literature on the ethnicity and European migration, as well as on tourism in its mass and long-stay forms. As a pleasant bonus, it also happens to be a very enjoyable read.." -Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, September 2001. Karen O’Reilly is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen.