|summary=Once you've done all the hard work (written a book, found a publisher, decided on a design for the cover and all those things), one of the remaining difficulties must be deciding who you should dedicate the tome to. Assuming it's no Oscar speech, and you can't thank the world and his dog, you have to narrow it down somewhat and select that special person whose name wins pride of place on the first page. Do you then go with something cryptic and intriguing, or apparently banal and blatantly obvious? I'm sure most readers don't even look at the dedications in most books, but if you did, would you understand the significance of them? Would something saying ''To my wife'' make you look twice, or would 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, as the author delves into the detail behind ''Fifty Great Dedications''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511351</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mick O'Hare
|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 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>
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{{newreview
|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern
|title=100 Facts About Pandas
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Sometimes 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>
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{{newreview
|author=Vivian Cook
|title=It's All in a Word
|rating=3.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Ah, the English language. That sine qua non, the prima facie lingua franca of the world. Prima inter pares when it comes to taking influence and words from other tongues, and responding in kind, to the chagrin of the French. We all use it, and in this day and age we can update an internet dictionary overnight to absorb all the neologisms, like "iPhone"; we can put the entire output of an author into a computer and it will count every word use up so we can find a fingerprint of a writer's style. It's a never-ending, fluid, changing entity, for better or worse.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680069</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tadg Farrington
|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>
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{{newreview
|author=Robin Laurance
|title=Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World's Most Curious Birthday Presents
|rating=4.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Is there anything more suited to a trivia book, yet so much thought over, and serious, than the birthday present? It might be something completely throw-away, but mean a lot to the receiver. It might have cost the giver an awful amount of money, and be disregarded by the person expected to accept it. And if you think the givings and takings of the rich and famous are sheer trivia, just think about the number of sociologists and historians who would jump at the chance to explore, say, Hitler's given gifts.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847246168</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=AQA 63336
|title=Brilliant Answers
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Do you need an answer to a question? Have you got your mobile handy? Right – text that question to 63336, the Home of Any Question Answered, and for £1 you'll have the answer within minutes. It might seem like magic but it's actually the result of a lot of people being on hand to research your problem and give you the solution. Over the years 1.7 million people have asked over fifteen million questions and as a special treat at the end of each year AQA lets us have a look at some of the most interesting questions and answers that they've seen in the course of the year.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682169</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracey Turner
|title=The Book of Big Excuses
|rating=3.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Ah, we've all made excuses at one time or another. We've all done things we shouldn't have done, then when caught out given a reason for it. Perhaps we've even given excuses as stylish as Zambian tennis player Lighton Ndefwayl, who said of his opponent: "[He] is a stupid man and a hopeless player. He has a huge nose and is cross-eyed. Girls hate him. He beat me because my jockstrap was too tight and because when he serves he farts, and that made me lose my concentration, for which I am famous throughout Zambia." Tracey Tuner has collated some of the best excuses ever given into a handy collection.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970553</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Matthew Cole
|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 and eats his nuts.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Niall Edworthy and Petra Cramsie
|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's Handbook
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=With a publication date in early November, the passing Christmas shopper is clearly the target for this book. ''The Optimist's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't a self-help book, but a compendium of enlightening snippets. Off the shelf, I think you'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving it. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will be a shelf full of similar books for a surreptitious and delightful half-hour's browse before choosing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danny Danziger
|title=The Thingummy
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Oh look, a trivia book. I don't think even I realised quite how many were published in the run up to every Christmas, but there are a lot. There is probably a name for the phenomenon.
There is a name for that bit between your nose and your lips – below your nasal septum comes the philtrum. There's a correct scientific name for the tummy-grumbling noises we make when things leave our stomach for lower down. Heck, there's even a scientific name for those circular grooves on top of a Frisbee.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561456X</amazonuk>
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