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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1780724047|title=Dedicated A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=I struggle toresist 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.: The Forgotten Friendships They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, Hidden Stories but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and Lost Loves found every one of them. I knew that I was in Second-hand Bookssafe hands.}}{{Frontpage|author=W B GooderhamDon Behrend|title=Copernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting Questions

|summary=This book just had to Hello! Would this review be called okay if I simply said ''The HorologiconI LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN''?! Because I did. Originally it meant a daily diary of devotion for a priest or monk. Our author knows it is a rare word these days and gives it to his modern Book of Hours, which is a guide to similarly obsolete, charming or unusually whimsical words set out, not as others do, as a dictionary, but in essays for every waking hour of the day, and the subject they're most likely to coverAnd you will.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848314159</amazonuk>1789016770

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arthur PlotnikLloyd_1423|title=Better Than Great1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over|author=John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller

|summary=Better Than Great You may think me lazy, but there is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a bravurabook such as this – you know you will have very little bearing on its sales, ingeniously inventiveand what's more you hardly even need describe it – just dip in here and there for a few quotes, roaringly intelligent thesaurus and sit back and relax knowing your job is done. ''Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the age of 28. Treadmills were once the harshest form of praise and acclaim punishment after the death penalty. Naked mole- ohrats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.'' And the whole of page 52. There, momma! Where has job done – and the creators of this paean-worthy, distressingly excellent book, which certainly goes the whole hog, been all my life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641336</amazonuk>have done their job to perfection.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel LevyBrightside_101|title=Why?101 Things to Take the Stress Out of Christmas|author=Robin Snow|rating=54

|summary=Why does For many years one of my guiding principles has been that the C word should not be mentioned until the Titanic float beginning of December but a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating in, why is it wet? And what colour is unfortunately, C seems to be coming earlier each year and there are even shops where itnever ceases to be imminent, which ramps up the stress levels considerably. So, ‘cos a book which promises 101 things to take the stress out of C seemed like a good idea. What’s it ain’t clearabout? These questions and many more are answered Tips like putting the sprouts on to boil in this book November or joining a religion which may avoids the celebration altogether? Well, not be a new concept but which is executed extremely wellquite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David AstleBrightside_Worry|title=Puzzled101 Things to do instead of worrying about the world|author=Felicity Brightside

|summary=Words are wonderful enough when they’re just telling you things straight up, but I don't think that I've ever been quite so worried about the state of the world as I have been of late - and I speak as someone who can resist them when they’re really being playful? Not David Astle, lived through the author Cuban Missile Crisis and various other apocalyptic moments. It almost certainly comes down to a lack of this new title that blows confidence in the lid on people who are supposedly in charge, whether it all with be from a political point of view or of our stewardship of this planet we call home. But what he calls can be done about it? We'secrets ve tried voting, arguing and clues from a life in wordsdemonstrating. Now we're down to pulling up the drawbridge and doing our best to think about something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685427</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph PiercyLloyd 1342|title=The Story of English1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Anne Miller|rating=35

|summary=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'The Story of English'' sets out to be s a potted history game of pulling the influences that have shaped wool over our languageeyes, from for every entrant in this series has had the equivalent online version for the Lindisfarne Gospels to LOLcats.com. Starting sources, so every page is replicated with the pre-Roman Celts and due links you need to search for proof of their Ogham alphabetstatements. No, it goes crashing through fifteen hundred years the game is Six Degrees of linguistic history Separation. And they're so good at a terrific pace it, they can do most things in three. So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, you can get from how to end with make the sound of an almost audible sigh Orc army for ''Lord of relief at the internet ageRings'' films to record-breaking nipple hair. From illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, is only three steps – and the path carries on to reach that erstwhile novice stand-up, Ronald Reagan, in two more. It's only two jumps between Donald Trump and Charles Darwin, disconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178834</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Daoust (editor)Lloyd_1411|title=Write.1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin

|summary=Cliché Handsome is such an awful word with all its connotations of the trite, the hackneyed and the overusedas handsome does. It's a word And youknow what else benefits from being curt and succinct, alongside old housewives'd hate saws like that one? Trivia. I always thought the QI books such as this one to have associated with your writingbe handsome things – perfectly presenting trivia, even if you produce nothing more public than a shopping list but for four (on rare occasion, three) statements to the benefit of the discerning reader Nigel Fountain has compiled page, in a list very nice little cubical hardback. Now they're being represented in alphabetical order of these dreaded phrases. I began readingpaperback, confident that I couldn't be caught out and then blushed when I realised that I'd just pointed out to someone that avoiding clichés wasn't rocket science. but you know what? They agreed that it isn't brain surgery eitherre still handsome things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843174863</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison MaloneyLloyd_1339|title=Bright Young Things|rating=4|genre=History|summary=According to the summary I read of ''Bright Young Things'' before choosing the book to read, it 'takes a sweeping look at the changing world of the Jazz Age'. I was expecting it to be something of a narrative account of the Roaring Twenties – in actual fact, it's set out as a collection of trivia about the decade. Similarly1, the 'first person accounts' mentioned on the inside front cover are limited to two or three sentence quotes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753540975</amazonuk>}} {{newreview339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop|author=E Foley John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and B Coates|title=Homework for Grown UpsJames Harkin

|summary=School days can sometimes seem like A spermologer ''is a very long time agocollector of trivia''. You most likely spent 12 to 14 years of early life learning in a classroom, but how much can you remember? 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 Just that sentence tells 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. Covering ten subjects from English and Maths to Science, Home Ec and History, it’s a crash course to refresh your knowledge lot – all those things you kinda know deep down, but at the same time have forgotten at least a little bit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540029</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Question Book|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-we're once more in the-year lists realm of the best bookscurt, albums and parties we have been succinct approach to in the previous twelve monthsworld's information and oddities. But can youIt says more, with some effort, locate however – beyond 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 weirdness of the books that list ''100 things to do before you die'' or ''500 books to read in your life'' (and ticked off word is the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend a whole evening and half of a night filling in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on obvious necessity for the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided word to exist – without people that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence could be called collectors of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 trivia 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 would not need the target readership of early primary school childrenterm. Add a somewhat nostalgic, timeless feel, trademark alliterations, subtle (and not so subtle) digs at family dynamicsAnd rest assured, sibling rivalry and particularly at modern middle-class manners and sensibilities 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 Etymologicon|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summary=I like words. Words there are awesome. End of. But I also like trivia. I like knowing things currently few people that perhaps other people don’t, and helpfully passing on this knowledge to them. So a book about word-related trivia is just a win-win, and this one is so good I think we’ll have to call it a win-win-winstand as better spermologers than the chief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghMetcalf_Skedaddle|title=Philip Ardagh's Book From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commonersthe Generation|author=Allan Metcalf

|summary=In I have to go a world roundabout way to introduce this book, so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of diamond-encrusted skullsthe language we use, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten but more so if anything from a pennydifferent couple of books, and their ideas of blingy shit (or should that be shitty bling?) it's a relief to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhilegenerations. The records for costliest photoauthors of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, artworkthe Millennials, musical instrument and manuscript those before, in between and since – have all their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been broken in and will be formed by the twenty interplay of just four months leading up to this book's releasedifferent kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular order. Our collators have scoured the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctionsI don't really hold much store by that, and found what other people paid for what you I certainly didn't know you would we'd started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for one? ''Somebody must have wanted given put out an order'', as someone here says of something else. But in the moneysame way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie PainHalliday_Cathedrals|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersCathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday

|genre=Popular ScienceTrivia|summary=The history What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of science anywhere that is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ..made a city – St Davids is a village of 2,000 people and wasn't always a city, but always had a cathedral, as did Chelmsford.It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentationnot the seat of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and hasn't had a coachmanbishop since 1690. It's leg not a minster – that becomes 's something completely different, and if you can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the difference, that I saw only the other month, you're a museum piece and gas-powered radiosbetter man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn''Farmer Buckleyt touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so it's Exploding Trousers'' regales us only the vast majority of this book that is saddled with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discoverydefinition problem. Part popular science bookIt's clearly not a real problem, part triviaand those it does have are by-passable, each article is for this successfully defines a treat to read, either cathedral as a fun-sized nuggetsomewhere of major importance, or when reading from cover to coverfine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter GillBramley_Shakespeare|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and EverythingThe Shakespeare Trail|author=Zoe Bramley|rating=54

|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the number 42 man heralded as the answer to lifegreatest writer in the English language, the universe and everythingEngland's national poet, died. In Shakespeare has made a charming trivia bookprofound mark on our culture and heritage, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into the story yet many aspects of his life remain in the book shadows, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Here, Zoe Bramley takes the author and another 250 reader on a journey through hundreds of places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a surprise to find occurrences most. Filled with intriguing tidbits of 42 in the worlds of sportinformation about Shakespeare, crimeElizabethan England, science and a wide range of other fieldsthe places that she talks about, this is no mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher WinnHalliday_London|title=I Never Knew That About the River ThamesLondon (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday

|summary=Here are What makes a city? Is it the materials, such as the remains very London Stone itself, of the building mythological repute, that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynasties. has moved around several times, and now forms part of a WH Smith's branch? Here is the place (This has nothing, of ill-reputecourse, where 'Rule Britannia' was premieredon Temple Bar, and which has also bizarrely saw a death been known to walk.) Is it the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by cricket ball that inspired John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]], the bakers (or whoever set fire to the most famous gardens in entire city from Pudding Lane) and the world. candlestick makers? Here too is Is it the infrastructure, from the largest lion Underground, whose one-time boss got a medal from Stalin for his success, to the London Bridge itself, that in its own wanderlust means it's highly unlikely the world. To where am I referringThames will freeze again? Well However you define a city, London certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and the answer is either the Thames valleytrivial yet fascinating. And, luckily for us, or so has this very book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareHolland_Railways|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, Railways (Amazing 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>}} {{newreviewExtraordinary Facts)|author=Phil Cousineau|title=Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful WordsJulian Holland|rating=3.5

|summary=I formed a newHow and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney, close friendship recentlyHythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, and one of at whose launch the first things I subtly dropped into things was latter had officiated before the fact that I might use a different dictionary to other peopleWar. Probably there was a subconscious thought forming What's the worst that it would be better to make it known, in case I trod can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on any toesa London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, said anything that didnif you't go down quite re an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as well as I had planned. But that's nothing compared an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up to what Phil Cousineau has done here, for he has written his own dictionary, and got it published prove you were wanted in a very nice, glossy, browsable formBelgium. AlrightAfter so many miles and so much drama, it's nothing like a complete dictionary, but everything no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country's trains. This book is here in his own personal style - 250 main words, definitions, derivations and examples designed to be an ideal source of use. Oh, quick articles and some modernfun mini-ish artworks as wellessays for use in the smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1573444006</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John AndrewsDonald_Words|title=The Economist Book Words of Ismsa Feather|author=Graeme Donald

|summary=I'm assuming all readers Words of this booka Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and this review, will know the meanings of the book certainly delivers. It pairs seemingly unrelated words racism, atheism digs up their etymological roots and Communismreveals their common ancestry. But how about Orphism? Nestorianism? Vorticism? Or the exact difference between egoismThe English language, egotismof course, and egocentrism? I'll confess to ignorance on all provides rich pickings indeed for a book of that second trio of words before reading this book, but was fascinated type and it is fascinating to find out what they were. (Orphism is a religion originating in 6th or 7th century BC Greece based on see the poems of Orpheus, who returned from Hadeshidden meaning behind common and not-so-common words. I'll leave Some connections are fairly obvious once you to find out read them. For example, the definitions of the other two yourself!) Similarly, I was aware of all three of that final trilogy, but am not sure I even knew there link between ''grotto''wasand ''grotesque' a difference, let alone that I'd have come close is easy to being able to actually define them all as this volume does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682983</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susie Dent|title=How to Talk Like a Localgrasp: From Cockney to Geordie, a National Companion|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary=Meeting a grammersow the word ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in a netty is more common than you might think - IAncient Roman ''grottoes''d put my revits on it. Having a neb around these pages I can find many different ways of saying Other connections are just extraordinary, like the above, as well so- or should that be boco ways. But before this review comes out as complete cagcrazy-mag, I'd better say this book is just as you-couldn'd expect t- an amenable, approachable but intelligent look at regional idiom and slang, in Amake-Z dictionary form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211791</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Derrick Niederman|title=Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=This is a book that definitely does what it says on the tin. Our author has the capacity to grab each number -up link between one ''furnace'' and ''fornicate''. These two hundred, and wring it for all its worth - all words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the special status it might have in our culture (city's abandoned baking domes. And some connections are more easy with seven thana little tenuous, sayseemingly just a collection of words banded together, 187), all as is the case with the special properties it might possess (perfect, triangular, prime), ''insult'' and as many other things mathematicians and so on would find ''salmon'' pairing. One of interest. Luckily there is enough here my personal favourites: the Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to summon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to make ''ciao'', a word the book more well worth a browse for -heeled among us who would not deem themselves number buffsuse instead of ''goodbye''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071563710X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=AQA 63336Binney_English|title=More Brilliant AnswersThe English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Ruth Binney

|summary=If youI 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've got a question you can text those nice people at AQA 63336 and they'll do their best was too good to provide you with a prompt and accurate answerbe missed. Over the last five years theyWe've answered some twenty million questions met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and each autumn they publish a we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book with the best and most interesting of the year's answers. There's some fun to be had in this yearIt's a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of bookthat you slip into a pocket or handbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683262</amazonuk> Would it be rather superficial?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tad TulejaLloyd_1234|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Take a look at the cover design of this book, and you'd be mistaken for thinking this was a trivia compendium for all those foreign words that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homes. But the title is definitely honest, for this is a dictionary book first, for reference1, and a browser for the trivia buff second.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>}} {{newreview234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless|author=Dr Aaron Carroll John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and Dr Rachel Vreeman|title=Don't Swallow Your GumJames Harkin

|genre=LifestyleTrivia|summary=''No US President has ever died in May.'' ''There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are men named John.'BANG' ''Dogs investigate bad smells with their right nostril and good smells with their left. '' That''Apollo 11's fuel consumption was seven inches to the sound of copious urban myths being shot downgallon. '' ''The first occupational disease ever recorded in medical literature was 'chimney sweep'BANGs scrotum'.''. That's the sound of the old wives slamming the door, as their tales get revealed as baseless. 'The song 'Yes, We Have No Bananas'CLICKwas written by Leon Trotsky's nephew.''. That's 'In the 18th Century, King George I declared all pigeon droppings to be the noise lots property of ill-informed websites make as they get closed downthe Crown''. All noises come due I hardly think I need to this brilliant booksay any more. Review over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin ScroggieBerenson_How|title=Eye Spy: Uncovering the Secrets of the World Around YouHow to Speak Emoji|author=Fred Benenson

|summary=Signs Emojis are everywhere. I wasnfun, and there't really one s so much more to them than the smileys of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I was driven past days gone by ;) They can be a pair of speed regulation signslanguage unto themselves, though, positioned at the exit end and I've found that some members of a one-way street but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signs, of courseahem, are quite as unnecessaryolder generation can find themselves a little troubled by them. This book, or indeed as blatantly visiblethen, which is where sounds perfect for anyone who needs a little help with this pictorial guide to countless coded messages, signifiers and other similar factoids comes in'language'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994487</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Lloyd_3rd|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars QI: The Third Book of the 70s General Ignorance|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and 80s Andrew Hunter Murray

|genre=SportTrivia|summary=This looks like some peopleWell done, Hartlepool. You didn's worst idea of t put on trial and kill a shipwrecked monkey thinking it a book, Napoleonic spy – any more than the several other places thusly accused everdid. TriviaWell done, nostalgiaItaly, footballfor making the ciabatta such a global phenomenon it seems like a traditional foodstuff, and lists - does even if it get more masculine? There's not a female was invented in sight1982. And well done to that famous ice hockey player, eitherCharles Darwin – who was probably playing it, seeing as we get 101 portraits it was a British invention, long before the Canadians ever realised they might be good at it. Yes, for a book that spends a lot of footballers from times pastits time saying 'this didn’t happen, ' 'hoojamaflip didn't do this,' and 'that was never thus', it's one that's incredibly easy to be most importantly, a summary of their career since hanging up the boots in the professional gamepositive about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghTaggart_New|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's nought so queer as folk. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name and date of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, to the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on all the people in the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the original had been better, and the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselves. We have long been a race of idiots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewModern World|author=Marlene Wagman-Geller |title=Once Again to Zelda: Fifty Great Dedications and Their StoriesCaroline Taggart|rating=43.5

|summary=Once youI never declare myself off to have a 'kip've done all the hard work (written a book, found a publisher, decided on a design for as I recall reading that it originally meant the cover same amount of sleeping – and all those things), one of the remaining difficulties must be deciding who you should dedicate the tome toactivity – as happens in a whorehouse. Assuming it The word 'cleave's no Oscar speech, and you can't thank the world and his dog, you have mean either to split apart or 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 intriguingconnect together, or apparently banal and blatantly obvious? I'm sure most readers donthere's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end of things to another although I can't even look at the dedications in most booksremember which. Certainly, but if you did, would you understand the significance of them? Would something saying ''To my wifeliterally'' has tried its best to make you look twicea full switch through rampant misuse. Such is the nature of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recently, or would that seem like and definitely in meaning. This attempt at capturing a reasonably common corner of the trivia/words/novelty market is interested in such tales from the etymological world – the way to dedicate we have adapted old words for our own, modern and perhaps very different usages. Certainly, having browsed it over a book? In ''Once Againweek, To Zelda'' you I 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''declare it a pretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511351</amazonuk>