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|author=John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller
|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to other areas of the place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rob Temple
|title=Very British Problems Abroad
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Meet, if you haven't already, the phenomenon of the Very British Problem. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of life. They can involve manners, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you and I know how to queue properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin Flude
|title=Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=History lives. Proof of that sweeping statement can be had in this book, and in the fact that while it only reached the grand old age of six, it has had the dust brushed off it and has been reprinted – and while the present royal incumbent it ends its main narrative with has not changed, other things have. This has quietly been updated to include the reburial of Richard III in Leicester, and seems to have been rereleased at a perfectly apposite time, as only the week before I write these words the Queen has surpassed all those who came before her as our longest serving ruler. Such details may be trivia to some – especially those of us of a more royalist bent – and important facts to others. The perfect balance of that coupling – trivia and detail – is what makes this book so worthwhile.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434631</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dr Gareth Moore
|title=Clever Commuter: Puzzles, Tests and Problems to Solve on Your Journey
|rating=3.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=The week before I reviewed this book I saw a newspaper article that said that so-called brain-training apps are a waste of time, that they merely replace what we should be doing anyway to keep our grey cells active (multi-tasking, observing, REAL LIFE etc). This is the puzzle book version of a brain training app, and so with all those electronic titles on the market it already had opposition, even before that news came in. But let's face it – who on earth would risk the science being wrong on this occasion? Surely this kind of book should be an inherently essential purchase?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433953</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=There Are Tittles in This Title: The Weird World of Words
|author=Mitchell Symons
|rating=3.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=I love spending time with Mitchell Symons books. If you don't know him, he's written this book, that book, and a book actually called ''This Book'' and a book actually called ''That Book''. He knows his trivia, he gets a lot of info on the page, and can really come across at the best of times as a convivial host. So pair him, as has happened here, with the weird and wonderful world of words and only great things could be expected. Unfortunately, then, only just above average things were expected.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432574</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns
|author=Chloe Rhodes
|rating=5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=We have all heard of a ''Pride of Lions'', a ''Herd of Cattle'' and a ''Flock of Birds'', but what about the less common, long forgotten collective nouns, like: a ''Bloat of Hippopotami'', a ''Mutation of Thrushes'', a ''Herd of Harlots'' or a ''Superfluity of Nuns''? If you are interested in the English language and the origin of words, then you will really enjoy browsing this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433082</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)
|author=Paul Simpson and Uli Hesse
|rating=4
|genre=Sport
|summary=In 1982, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer of the Year Allan Simonsen. If the thought of the Danish superstar forsaking the glamour of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during a World Cup qualifier.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065</amazonuk>
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