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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->==Trivia==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1780724047|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commoners|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you deem a good children's historical trivia book to be one that tells you, the adult, something they didn't know about historical trivia, then this is a good example. 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 A Dictionary of France nearly got torched in some drunken bacchanal. The length 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 the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldier. Therefore this is a good book for children Interesting and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewImportant Dogs|author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable thingsPeter J Conradi
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|genre=TriviaPets|summary=In I struggle to resist a world of diamondbook 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 -encrusted skullsand probably both, gold-leafed iPhones I was expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and luxury yachts ten Important Dogs'' is actually ''a penny, rich compendium of blingy shit (or should that be shitty bling?) the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a relief to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhilerich treasure trove. The records for costliest photoWe begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, artwork, musical instrument Sky. Bradley and manuscript have all been broken in the twenty four months leading up to this book's releaseMax. Our collators have scoured the press for those and otherThey're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found but what other people paid comes over is Conradi's love for what you didn't know you would have wanted given the moneyeach and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie PainDon Behrend|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting Questions
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|genre=Popular ScienceTrivia|summary=The history of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...ItHello! Would this review be okay if I simply said 's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentation, a coachman's leg that becomes a museum piece and gas-powered radiosI LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discovery?! Because I did. 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 coverAnd you will.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>1789016770
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter GillLloyd_1423|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer 1,423 QI Facts to LifeBowl You Over|author=John Lloyd, the Universe James Harkin and EverythingAnne Miller
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|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy You may think me lazy, but there is just why Adams chose the number 42 an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a book such as the answer to lifethis – you know you will have very little bearing on its sales, the universe and everything. In what's more you hardly even need describe it – just dip in here and there for a charming trivia bookfew quotes, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into and sit back and relax knowing your job is done. ''Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the story age of 28. Treadmills were once the book and harshest form of punishment after the author and another 250 to find occurrences of 42 in death penalty. Naked mole-rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.'' And the worlds whole of sportpage 52. There, crime, science job done – and a wide range the creators of other fieldsthis book certainly have done their job to perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher WinnBrightside_101|title=I Never Knew That About 101 Things to Take the River ThamesStress Out of Christmas|author=Robin Snow|rating=4.5
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|summary=Here are the remains For many years one of my guiding principles has been that the building that could C word should not be said to have sired two important British royal dynasties. Here is mentioned until the place beginning of ill-reputeDecember but, unfortunately, C seems to be coming earlier each year and there are even shops where 'Rule Britannia' was premieredit never ceases to be imminent, and which also bizarrely saw a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens in the world. Here too is ramps up the largest lion in the worldstress levels considerably. To where am I referring? Well the answer is either the Thames valleySo, or this very a bookwhich promises 101 things to take the stress out of C seemed like a good idea.|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 What’s it about why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. Why is frozen milk yellow? Does eating bogeys do you any harm? What's Tips like putting the hole for sprouts on to boil in November or joining a ballpoint penreligion which avoids the celebration altogether? How long a line could you draw with a single pencil? For answers to all these questionsWell, 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]]not quite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668398X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil CousineauBrightside_Worry|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 101 Things to do instead of worrying about 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>}} {{newreviewworld|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 a book, found a publisher, decided on is a design for the cover and all those things), one collector of the remaining difficulties must be deciding who you should dedicate the tome to. Assuming ittrivia's no Oscar speech, and you can't thank the world and his dog, you have to narrow it down somewhat and select . Just that special person whose name wins pride of place on the first page. Do sentence tells you then go with something cryptic and intriguing, or apparently banal and blatantly obvious? I'm sure most readers dona lot – we't even look at the dedications re once more in most books, but if you did, would you understand the significance realm of them? Would something saying ''To my wife'' make you look twicethe curt, or would that seem like a reasonably common way succinct approach to dedicate a book? In the world''Once Agains information and oddities. It says more, To Zelda'' you can discover however – beyond the stories you don't know behind weirdness of the stories you may well, as word is the author delves into the detail behind ''Fifty Great Dedications''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=How To Make A Tornado|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year, another must-read book from obvious necessity for 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 word to make a tornado, and all the other crazy experiments exist – without people that scientists have done over could be called collectors of trivia you would not need the yearsterm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David O'DohertyAnd rest assured, 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 there are currently few people that stand as better spermologers than the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandaschief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vivian Cook Metcalf_Skedaddle|title=It's All in a WordFrom Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generation|author=Allan 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, Railways (Amazing and he sits back 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=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>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Scroggie|title=Tic-tac Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos|rating=43
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|summary=Signs are everywhere. I wasn't really one How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until York (George VI)? They reopened the day I was driven past a pair of speed regulation signsRomney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, positioned at whose launch the latter had officiated before the War. What's the exit end of worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a one-way street but facing London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the illegal way invoice turns up to prove you were wanted in Belgium. After so many miles and so much drama, it's no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country's trains. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessary, or indeed as blatantly visible, which This book is where this pictorial guide designed to countless coded messages, signifiers be an ideal source of quick articles and other similar factoids comes fun mini-essays for use inthe smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340976489</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angus Cargill (Editor)Donald_Words|title=Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book Words of Music Lists a Feather|author=Graeme Donald
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|summary=AhWords of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and the music listbook certainly delivers.It pairs seemingly unrelated words, digs up their etymological roots and reveals their common ancestry. The English language, of course, provides rich pickings indeed for a book of this type and it is fascinating to see the hidden meaning behind common and not-so-common words.Some connections are fairly obvious once you read them. balm For example, the link between ''grotto'' and ''grotesque'' is easy to pop obsessives (see Nick Hornbygrasp: the word ''grotesque''s derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''High Fidelitygrottoes''). Other connections are just extraordinary, makeweight of copylike the so-crazy-you-couldn't-make-it-starved magazine editors, up link between ''furnace'' and staple of self-indulgent writers (see ''31 Songsfornicate'', also by Nick Hornby). The contributors These two words date back to this volume fall mainly into Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the latter categorycity's abandoned baking domes. No fewer And some connections are more than thirty five a little tenuous, seemingly just a collection of them supply their musical top tenswords banded together, ranging from as is the case with the ''insult'' and ''salmon'' pairing. One of my personal favourites: the fanatical Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to the frivoloussummon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to ''ciao'', via a word the frankly frighteningmore well-heeled among us use instead of ''goodbye''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam JordisonBinney_English|title=Sod That!: 103 Things Not To Do Before You DieThe English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Ruth Binney
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|summary=Without sounding like a braggart, I have done some pleasant things live in life. I've caught the first bus up to Machu Picchu, countryside and shared spend as much time as the sunrise with only weather will allow exploring it, so the llamaschance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. IWe've eaten strange things while on a full fortnight tour of Icelandmet Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. But closer to home, were I to have It's a list, there would be many things left on it – I've been nowhere near Bath, or York; I've never seen hardback and beautifully presented but its the film ET, which for a man of my age is something size of book that you slip into a claim to famepocket or handbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100553</amazonuk> Would it be rather superficial?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian CroftonLloyd_1234|title=History Without the Boring Bits1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James 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
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|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
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|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|author=Caroline Taggart|rating=43.5
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