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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1780724047|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=Trivia4|genre=Pets|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe hands.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E Foley and B CoatesDon Behrend|title=Homework for Grown UpsCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting Questions
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|summary=School days can sometimes seem like a very long time agoHello! Would this review be okay if I simply said ''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. You most likely spent 12 to 14 years of early life learning in a classroom, but how much can you rememberFIN''? Sure, you can count, and you know your alphabet, but all those other lessons you had, how much can you really remember of those? If you want or need to remember back to your school lessons (to help your own children with their homework, to win pub quizzes, whatever the reason) then this book can help! Because I did. Covering ten subjects from English and Maths to Science, Home Ec and History, it’s a crash course to refresh your knowledge – all those things And you kinda know deep down, but at the same time have forgotten at least a little bitwill.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099540029</amazonuk>1789016770
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman TschappelerLloyd_1423|title=The Question Book|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums and parties we have been to in the previous twelve months. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list ''100 things to do before you die'' or ''500 books to read in your life'' (and ticked off the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend a whole evening and half of a night filling in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence of your personality and then proceeded 423 QI Facts to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBowl You Over|author=Francesca Simon|title=Horrid Henry's A - Z of Everything Horrid|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Francesca Simon's Horrid Henry is a very popular little boy, although you might have a different opinion if you actually had to put up with his antics yourself. A slightly modernised embodiment of 'slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails' concept of boyhood, Henry is naughtiness personified, combining irreverence for authority with a huge dose of gross-out crude humour that really appeals to the target readership of early primary school children. Add a somewhat nostalgic, timeless feel, trademark alliterations, subtle (and not so subtle) digs at family dynamicsJohn Lloyd, sibling rivalry and particularly at modern middle-class manners and sensibilities James Harkin and you have a winning character and a base for a very successful edutainment franchise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002260</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Forsyth|title=The EtymologiconAnne Miller
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|summary=I like words. Words are awesome. End of. But I also like trivia. I like knowing things that perhaps other people don’tYou may think me lazy, and helpfully passing on this knowledge to them. So but there is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a book about word-related trivia is just a win-win, and such as this one is so good I think we’ll – you know you will have to call it a win-win-win.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queensvery little bearing on its sales, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commoners|rating=3.5|genre=Childrenwhat's Non-Fiction|summary=If more you deem hardly even need describe it – just dip in here and there for a good children's historical trivia book to be one that tells youfew quotes, the adult, something they didn't know about historical trivia, then this and sit back and relax knowing your job is a good exampledone. I didn't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahs. I didn't know Charles VI Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the age of France nearly got torched in some drunken bacchanal28. The length Treadmills were once the harshest form of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasn't wholly whole all that time)) was news to me, as was punishment after the raffle that was held (more or less) death penalty. Naked mole-rats can survive for being 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.'' And the unknown soldierwhole of page 52. Therefore There, job done – and the creators of this is a good book for children and the adults willing certainly have done their job to instill some historical trivia into themperfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus HusselbyBrightside_101|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide 101 Things to Take the year's most desirable thingsStress Out of Christmas|author=Robin Snow
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|summary=In a world For many years one of my guiding principles has been that the C word should not be mentioned until the beginning of diamond-encrusted skullsDecember but, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten a pennyunfortunately, of blingy shit (or should that C seems to be shitty bling?) coming earlier each year and there are even shops where it's never ceases to be imminent, which ramps up the stress levels considerably. So, a relief book which promises 101 things to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhiletake the stress out of C seemed like a good idea. The records for costliest photo, artwork, musical instrument and manuscript have all been broken in What’s it about? Tips like putting the twenty four months leading up sprouts on to this book's release. Our collators have scoured boil in November or joining a religion which avoids the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctionscelebration altogether? Well, and found what other people paid for what you didn't know you would have wanted given the moneynot quite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie PainBrightside_Worry|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The history 101 Things to do instead of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentation, a coachman's leg that becomes a museum piece and gas-powered radios. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discovery. Part popular science book, part trivia, each article is a treat to read, either as a fun-sized nugget, or when reading from cover to cover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Gill|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summary=A common question worrying about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose the number 42 as the answer to life, the universe and everything. In a charming trivia book, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into the story of the book and the author and another 250 to find occurrences of 42 in the worlds of sport, crime, science and a wide range of other fields.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Winn|title=I Never Knew That About the River Thames|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary=Here are the remains of the building that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynasties. Here is the place of ill-repute, where 'Rule Britannia' was premiered, and which also bizarrely saw a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens in the world. Here too is the largest lion in the world. To where am I referring? Well the answer is either the Thames valley, or this very book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=Why Can't Elephants Jump?|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Well? Why can't elephants jump? And while you're pondering that, think about why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. Why is frozen milk yellow? Does eating bogeys do you any harm? What's the hole for in a ballpoint pen? How long a line could you draw with a single pencil? For answers to all these questions, and so many more, then do yourself a favour and pick up the latest collection from the New Scientist's [http://www.last-word.com/ Last Word column]. Mick O'Hare was also kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick O'Hare|interviewed by Bookbag]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668398X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Cousineau|title=Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words|rating=3.5|genre=Trivia|summary=I formed a new, close friendship recently, and one of the first things I subtly dropped into things was the fact that I might use a different dictionary to other people. Probably there was a subconscious thought forming that it would be better to make it known, in case I trod on any toes, said anything that didn't go down quite as well as I had planned. But that's nothing compared to what Phil Cousineau has done here, for he has written his own dictionary, and got it published in a very nice, glossy, browsable form. Alright, it's nothing like a complete dictionary, but everything is here in his own personal style - 250 main words, definitions, derivations and examples of use. Oh, and some modern-ish artworks as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1573444006</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Andrews|title=The Economist Book of IsmsFelicity Brightside
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|summary=Idon'm assuming all readers t think that I've ever been quite so worried about the state of this book, and this review, will know the meanings world as I have been of late - and I speak as someone who lived through the words racism, atheism Cuban Missile Crisis and Communismvarious other apocalyptic moments. But how about Orphism? Nestorianism? Vorticism? Or the exact difference between egoism, egotism, and egocentrism? I'll confess It almost certainly comes down to ignorance on all a lack of that second trio of words before reading this book, but was fascinated to find out what they were. (Orphism is a religion originating confidence in 6th or 7th century BC Greece based on the poems of Orpheuspeople who are supposedly in charge, who returned whether it be from Hades. I'll leave you to find out the definitions a political point of the other two yourself!) Similarly, I was aware view or of all three our stewardship of that final trilogy, but am not sure I even knew there ''this planet we call home. But what can be done about it? We'was''' a differenceve tried voting, let alone that Iarguing and demonstrating. Now we'd have come close re down to being able pulling up the drawbridge and doing our best to actually define them all as this volume doesthink about something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682983</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susie DentLloyd 1342|title=How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, a National CompanionJames Harkin and Anne Miller|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meeting I love the way the QI elves play games with us with [[:Category:John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin|these books]]. That's not to say it's a grammersow game of pulling the wool over our eyes, for every entrant in a netty this series has had the equivalent online version for the sources, so every page is more common than replicated with the due links you might think - Ineed to search for proof of their statements. No, the game is Six Degrees of Separation. And they'd put my revits on re so good at it, they can do most things in three. Having a neb around these pages I So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, you can find many different ways get from how to make the sound of an Orc army for ''Lord of saying the above, as well Rings'' films to record- or should that be boco waysbreaking nipple hair. But before this review comes out as complete cag-magFrom illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, I'd better say this book is just as you'd expect only three steps – and the path carries on to reach that erstwhile novice stand- an amenableup, Ronald Reagan, approachable but intelligent look at regional idiom in two more. It's only two jumps between Donald Trump and slangCharles Darwin, in A-Z dictionary formdisconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211791</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derrick NiedermanLloyd_1411|title=Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
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|summary=Signs are everywhereHandsome is as handsome does. I wasnAnd you know what else benefits from being curt and succinct, alongside old housewives't really saws like that one of those who ? Trivia. I always thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I was driven past a pair of speed regulation signs, positioned at the exit end of a QI books such as this one-way street but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessaryto be handsome things – perfectly presenting trivia, or indeed as blatantly visiblefour (on rare occasion, which is where this pictorial guide three) statements to countless coded messagesthe page, signifiers and other similar factoids comes ina very nice little cubical hardback. Now they're being represented in paperback, but you know what? They're still handsome things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994487</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Lloyd_1339|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and 80s James Harkin
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|summary=Once youA spermologer ''ve done all the hard work (written is a book, found collector of trivia''. Just that sentence tells you a publisher, decided on a design for lot – we're once more in the cover and all those things), one realm of the remaining difficulties must be deciding who you should dedicate curt, succinct approach to the tome to. Assuming itworld's no Oscar speechinformation and oddities. It says more, and you can't thank however – beyond the world and his dog, you have to narrow it down somewhat and select that special person whose name wins pride weirdness of place on the first page. Do you then go with something cryptic and intriguing, or apparently banal and blatantly word is the obvious? I'm sure most readers don't even look at necessity for the dedications in most books, but if word to exist – without people that could be called collectors of trivia you did, would you understand not need the significance of them? Would something saying ''To my wife'' make you look twiceterm. And rest assured, or would there are currently few people that seem like a reasonably common way to dedicate a book? In ''Once Again, To Zelda'' you can discover the stories you don't know behind the stories you may well, stand as better spermologers than the author delves into the detail behind ''Fifty Great Dedications''chief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511351</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareMetcalf_Skedaddle|title=How To Make A Tornado|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year, another must-read book from the New Scientist. We've been here before with [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|polar bears]], [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|penguins]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|hamsters]]. Now it's time From Skedaddle to turn our attention to how to make a tornado, and all the other crazy experiments that scientists have done over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes Selfie: Words of the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGeneration|author=Vivian Cook |title=It's All in a WordAllan Metcalf
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|summary=AhI have to go a roundabout way to introduce this book, the English languageso bear with me. That sine qua non, It stems partly from dictionaries and the prima facie lingua franca etymology of the worldlanguage we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generations. Prima inter pares when it comes to taking influence The authors of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and words from other tonguesthose before, in between and responding in kindsince – have their own cyclical pattern, to and the chagrin history of humanity has been and will be formed by the Frenchinterplay of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular order. We all use itI don't really hold much store by that, and in this day and age I certainly didn't know we can update an internet dictionary overnight to absorb all 'd started one since the Millennials – who the neologismsheck decides such things, like "iPhone"; we can for one? ''Somebody must have put the entire output of out an author into a computer and it will count every word use up so we can find a fingerprint order'', as someone here says of a writer's stylesomething else. It's But in the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a never-endingclue to what was important, fluid, changing entity, for better or worsepredominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680069</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tadg FarringtonHalliday_Cathedrals|title=The Average Life of the Average Person|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Back in school, we would often bemoan the idea of 'average', saying that like being 'normal', if there were such a thing, who would even want to be it? There could be nothing worse, we thought, than being average. Except...there is by definition a whole lot worse than 'average' – the exact same amount that is better than average, in fact. And that was the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086235</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Robin Laurance|title=Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World's Most Curious Birthday PresentsStephen Halliday
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|summary=Is there anything more suited to What makes a trivia book, yet so much thought overcathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of anywhere that is made a city – St Davids is a village of 2, 000 people and serious, than the birthday present? It might be something completely throw-awaywasn't always a city, but mean always had a lot to the receivercathedral, as did Chelmsford. It might have cost 's not the giver an awful amount seat of moneya bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and be disregarded by the person expected to accept ithasn't had a bishop since 1690. And It's not a minster – that's something completely different, and if you think can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the difference, that I saw only the givings other month, you're a better man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn't touch on minsters much, and takings we can understand abbeys, so it's only the vast majority of this book that is saddled with the rich definition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, and famous those it does have are sheer triviaby-passable, just think about the number for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of sociologists major importance, fine trivia and historians who would jump at the chance to explore, say, Hitler's given giftsgreatly worthy of our attention. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847246168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=AQA 63336Bramley_Shakespeare|title=Brilliant AnswersThe Shakespeare Trail|author=Zoe Bramley
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|summary=Do you need an answer to a question? Have you got your mobile handy? Right – text that question to 63336It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the Home of Any Question Answeredman heralded as the greatest writer in the English language, and for £1 youEngland'll have the answer within minutess national poet, died. It might seem like magic but it's actually the result of Shakespeare has made a lot of people being profound mark on hand to research your problem our culture and give you heritage, yet many aspects of his life remain in the solutionshadows, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Over Here, Zoe Bramley takes the years 1.7 million people have asked over fifteen million questions and as reader on a special treat at the end journey through hundreds of each year AQA lets us have places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a look at some surprise to most. Filled with intriguing tidbits of information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, and the most interesting questions and answers places that they've seen in the course of the yearshe talks about, this is no mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682169</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey TurnerHalliday_London|title=The Book of Big ExcusesLondon (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday|rating=34.5
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|summary=AhWhat makes a city? Is it the materials, we've all made excuses at one time or another. We've all done things we shouldn't have donesuch as the very London Stone itself, of mythological repute, that has moved around several times, then when caught out given and now forms part of a reason for it. Perhaps weWH Smith've even given excuses as stylish as Zambian tennis player Lighton Ndefwayls branch? (This has nothing, who said of his opponentcourse, on Temple Bar, which has also been known to walk.) Is it the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: "[HeWhitechapel by John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]] is , the bakers (or whoever set fire to the entire city from Pudding Lane) and the candlestick makers? Is it the infrastructure, from the Underground, whose one-time boss got a stupid man and medal from Stalin for his success, to the London Bridge itself, that in its own wanderlust means it's highly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a hopeless player. He city, London certainly has a huge nose lot going for it as regards weird and is cross-eyed. Girls hate him. He beat me because my jockstrap was too tight and because when he serves he fartswonderful, and that made me lose my concentrationthe trivial yet fascinating. And, luckily for which I am famous throughout Zambia." Tracey Tuner us, so has collated some of the best excuses ever given into a handy collectionthis book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970553</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew ColeHolland_Railways|title=Will Work for Nuts|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=The intrepid adventurer faces a most daunting challenge. Girding his loins in anticipation of achieving his goal, he leaps into action, hell-bent only on success, never fearing the inherent danger. With death-defying stunts and leaps aplenty, he needs to use any vehicles he finds in his path, untold balancing skills, nerve-racking whippy plastic stick things, and an awful lot more. Finally his lithe, muscular frame lands near his target, and he sits back Railways (Amazing and eats his nuts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewExtraordinary Facts)|author= Niall Edworthy and Petra Cramsie|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's HandbookJulian Holland|rating=43
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|summary=With a publication date in early NovemberHow and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the passing Christmas shopper is clearly latter had officiated before the target for this bookWar. ''The OptimistWhat's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't the worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a self-help bookLondon goods train with no further destination documents? Well, but a compendium of enlightening snippetsif you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up to prove you were wanted in Belgium. Off the shelfAfter so many miles and so much drama, I think youit's no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving its trains. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will This book is designed to be a shelf full an ideal source of similar books for a surreptitious quick articles and delightful halffun mini-hour's browse before choosingessays for use in the smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny DanzigerDonald_Words|title=The ThingummyWords of a Feather|author=Graeme Donald
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|summary=Oh lookWords of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, a trivia and the bookcertainly delivers. I don't think even I realised quite how many were published in the run It pairs seemingly unrelated words, digs up to every Christmastheir etymological roots and reveals their common ancestry. The English language, of course, but there are provides rich pickings indeed for a lot. There book of this type and it is probably a name for fascinating to see the phenomenonhidden meaning behind common and not-so-common words. Some connections are fairly obvious once you read them. There is a name for that bit For example, the link between your nose ''grotto'' and your lips – below your nasal septum comes ''grotesque'' is easy to grasp: the philtrumword ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''grottoes''. ThereOther connections are just extraordinary, like the so-crazy-you-couldn's a correct scientific name for the tummyt-grumbling noises we make -it-up link between ''furnace'' and ''fornicate''. These two words date back to Ancient Rome when things leave our stomach for lower downprostitutes took over the city's abandoned baking domes. HeckAnd some connections are more than a little tenuous, seemingly just a collection of words banded together, thereas is the case with the ''insult'' and 's even 'salmon'' pairing. One of my personal favourites: the Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to summon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to ''ciao'', a scientific name for those circular grooves on top word the more well-heeled among us use instead of a Frisbee''goodbye''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561456X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin ScroggieBinney_English|title=Tic-tac Teddy Bears The English Countryside (Amazing and Teardrop TattoosExtraordinary Facts)|author=Ruth Binney
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|summary=Signs are everywhereI live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring it, so the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. I wasnWe't really ve met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I thing was driven past worrying me about this book. It's a pair of speed regulation signs, positioned at hardback and beautifully presented but its the exit end size of book that you slip into a one-way street but facing the illegal way up itpocket or handbag. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessary, or indeed as blatantly visible, which is where this pictorial guide to countless coded messages, signifiers and other similar factoids comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340976489</amazonuk>Would it be rather superficial?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angus Cargill (Editor)Lloyd_1234|title=Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists |rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Ah1, the music list... balm 234 QI Facts to pop obsessives (see Nick Hornby's ''High Fidelity''), makeweight of copy-starved magazine editors, and staple of self-indulgent writers (see ''31 Songs'', also by Nick Hornby). The contributors to this volume fall mainly into the latter category. No fewer than thirty five of them supply their musical top tens, ranging from the fanatical to the frivolous, via the frankly frightening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241727</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLeave You Speechless|author=Sam Jordison|title=Sod That!: 103 Things Not To Do Before You Die|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Without sounding like a braggart, I have done some pleasant things in life. I've caught the first bus up to Machu PicchuJohn Lloyd, John Mitchinson and shared the sunrise with only the llamas. I've eaten strange things while on a full fortnight tour of Iceland. But closer to home, were I to have a list, there would be many things left on it – I've been nowhere near Bath, or York; I've never seen the film ET, which for a man of my age is something of a claim to fame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Crofton|title=History Without the Boring BitsJames Harkin
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|summary=Now, I'm 'No US President has ever died in May.'' ''There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are men named John.'' ''Dogs investigate bad smells with their right nostril and good smells with their left.'' ''Apollo 11's fuel consumption was seven inches to the gallon.'' ''The first person to admit I am not a wine buffoccupational disease ever recorded in medical literature was 'chimney sweep's scrotum'. '' I know a lot more now than I did before my current relationship''The song 'Yes, but she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smellWe Have No Bananas' was written by Leon Trotsky's nephew. '' Added ''In the 18th Century, King George I declared all pigeon droppings to that a blunt sense be the property of taste and Ithe Crown''m left saying . I know what hardly think I like when I drink it, and that's itneed to say any more. Review over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241743</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stevyn ColganBerenson_How|title=Joined-up Thinking: How to Connect Everything to Everything ElseSpeak Emoji|author=Fred Benenson
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=I am in this book. And so therefore Emojis are you. So why donfun, and there't I like it quite as s so much as I should? To be more honest, neither to them than the smileys of us are in this book, although we could well days gone by ;) They can be. It is a trivia collection based on attesting the feeling that everything is linked to everything and everyone elselanguage unto themselves, if only you know how. Thus the chapters introduce us to item A, which is linked to item B, which relates to C, whose story is incomplete without Dthough, and so on and lo and behold, before you know it you're back at A, having had no idea where we were going.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230712207</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dr Robert Vanderplank|title=Uglier Than A Monkey's Armpit|rating=3.5|genre=Trivia|summary=Now I've always been one for delivering found that some members of the, ahem, older generation can find themselves a nice meaty insultlittle troubled by them. And if you think otherwise This book, then you're just a #####ing ******** of a !!!!!!!!!!, with a &%&%&% sounds perfect for anyone who needs a $$$$$$. But I've been brought up little help with the usual British malaise when it comes to learning foreign languages, and so beyond knowing that this 'language'Leche!'' is a bit meaty in Spanish, I could not help to cuss and swear like whatever other languages might have for trooper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464485</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Hodgkinson Lloyd_3rd|title=QI: The Third Book of Idle PleasuresGeneral Ignorance|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray
|rating=4.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=We've all heard the clichés about modern lifeWell done, Hartlepool. You know – technology was meant to free us from drudgery. Instead wedidn've become its slaves t put on trial and work longer hours kill a shipwrecked monkey thinking it a Napoleonic spy – any more than the several other places thusly accused everdid. We're overloaded with means of communication but few of us know our neighboursWell done, Italy, etcfor making the ciabatta such a global phenomenon it seems like a traditional foodstuff, etceven if it was invented in 1982. On hearing theseAnd well done to that famous ice hockey player, most of us shrug and carry on with our busyCharles Darwin – who was probably playing it, seeing as it was a British invention, busy liveslong before the Canadians ever realised they might be good at it. But now and thenYes, something reminds us for a book that spends a lot of who its time saying 'this didn’t happen,' 'hoojamaflip didn't do this,' and what we are. This delightful'that was never thus', unassuming book is it's one of those thingsthat's incredibly easy to be most positive about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091923328</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina PhillipsTaggart_New|title=Ouch! Extreme Feats of Human EnduranceNew Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World|ratingauthor=4.5Caroline Taggart|genre=Trivia|summaryrating=Everything from Shackleton to Ellen MacArthur, by way of the Japanese word for fried rice-field grasshopper, and 32 hour long after dinner speeches3. ''Ouch!'' contains fascinating trivia on every page that children will love to repeat back to you at length.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454056</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=Any Question Answered|author=AQA 633365
|genre=Trivia
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