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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --><!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1780724047|title=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson A Dictionary of Interesting and James HarkinImportant Dogs|titleauthor=1,234 QI Facts to Leave You SpeechlessPeter J Conradi|rating=54|genre=TriviaPets|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''No US President has ever died in May.thin'' : given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn'There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are men named Johnt interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting a massive tome.'' But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs investigate bad smells with their right nostril and good smells with their left.'' is actually ''Apollo 11a rich compendium of the world's fuel consumption was seven inches to the gallon.most significant and beloved dogs'' ''The first occupational disease ever recorded in medical literature was 'chimney sweepand it's scrotum'certainly a rich treasure trove.'' ''The song 'Yes, We Have No Bananas' was written by Leon Trotskybegin with Peter J Conradi's nephewfour collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Max.'' They''In the 18th Centuryre consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, King George I declared all pigeon droppings to be property of the Crown''. I hardly think I need say any more. Review but what comes over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571326684</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Fred Benenson|title= How to Speak Emoji|rating= 4|genre= Trivia|summary= Emojis are fun, and thereis Conradi's so much more to them than the smileys of days gone by ? They can be a language unto themselves, though, love for each and I've found that some members every one of the, ahem, older generation can find themselves a little troubled by them. This book, then, sounds perfect for anyone who needs a little help with this 'language' I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178503202X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter MurrayDon Behrend|title=QICopernicus! What Have You Done?: The Third Book of General Ignorance...and Other Interesting Questions

|summary=Well done, HartlepoolHello! Would this review be okay if I simply said ''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. You didnFIN't put on trial and kill a shipwrecked monkey thinking it a Napoleonic spy – any more than the several other places thusly accused ever '?! Because I did. Well done, Italy, for making the ciabatta such a global phenomenon it seems like a traditional foodstuff, even if it was invented in 1982. And well done to that famous ice hockey player, Charles Darwin – who was probably playing it, seeing as 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 its 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 positive aboutyou will.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571308988</amazonuk>1789016770

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline TaggartLloyd_1423|title=New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over|author=John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=I never declare myself off to have You may think me lazy, but there is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a 'kip', book such as I recall reading that it originally meant the same amount of sleeping this – you know you will have very little bearing on its sales, and activity what's more you hardly even need describe it – as happens just dip in here and there for a whorehousefew quotes, and sit back and relax knowing your job is done. The word 'cleave' can mean either to split apart, or to connect together, and I'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the age of 28. Treadmills were once the harshest form of things to another although I punishment after the death penalty. Naked mole-rats can't remember whichsurvive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants. Certainly, ''literally'' has tried its best to make a full switch through rampant misuse. Such is And the nature whole of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recently, and definitely in meaningpage 52. This attempt at capturing a corner of the trivia/words/novelty market is interested in such tales from the etymological world There, job done – and the way we creators of this book certainly have adapted old words for our own, modern and perhaps very different usages. Certainly, having browsed it over a week, I can declare it a pretty strong attemptdone their job to perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve TribeBrightside_101|title=The All New University Challenge Quiz Book: Questions, Answers, Facts, Figures and everything in between101 Things to Take the Stress Out of Christmas|author=Robin Snow|rating=3.54|genre=EntertainmentTrivia|summary=[Cue theme music. Lights up on presenterFor many years one of my guiding principles has been that the C word should not be mentioned until the beginning of December but, who waffles on about establishments providing contestants – De Montfort Universityunfortunately, local pubC seems to be coming earlier each year and there are even shops where it never ceases to be imminent, family unitwhich ramps up the stress levels considerably. Contestants don't, for onceSo, introduce themselves as it's probably a given that they know each other. Contestants imbibe nervous sips book which promises 101 things to take the stress out of 'water', and settle backC seemed like a good idea.] ''You all know What’s it about? Tips like putting the rules, so let's not waste time – here's your first starter for ten.''  Yes, this book throws no punches and attempts sprouts on to put you boil in November or joining a religion which avoids the spotlight of one of the nation's most superlative televisual institutions – but does it manage itcelebration altogether?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184949701X</amazonuk>Well, not quite.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroBrightside_Worry|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance 101 Things to do instead of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt worrying 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>}}{{newreviewworld|author=Rob Temple|title=Very British Problems AbroadFelicity Brightside

|summary=I love spending time with Mitchell Symons books. If you don't know him, hethink that I's written this book, that book, ve ever been quite so worried about the state of the world as I have been of late - and a book actually called ''This Book'' I speak as someone who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and a book actually called ''That Book''various other apocalyptic moments. He knows his trivia, he gets It almost certainly comes down to a lot lack of info on confidence in the pagepeople who are supposedly in charge, and can really come across at the best whether it be from a political point of view or of our stewardship of times as a convivial hostthis planet we call home. So pair himBut what can be done about it? We've tried voting, as has happened here, with arguing and demonstrating. Now we're down to pulling up the weird drawbridge and wonderful world of words and only great things could be expected. Unfortunately, then, only just above average things were expecteddoing our best to think about something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Lloyd 1342|title=An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted|author=Chloe RhodesJohn Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Anne Miller

|summary=We have all heard of a ''Pride of Lions''I love the way the QI elves play games with us with [[:Category:John Lloyd, a John Mitchinson and James Harkin|these books]]. That's not to say it'Herd of Cattle'' and s a ''Flock game of Birds''pulling the wool over our eyes, but what about for every entrant in this series has had the equivalent online version for the less commonsources, long forgotten collective nounsso every page is replicated with the due links you need to search for proof of their statements. No, like: a ''Bloat the game is Six Degrees of Hippopotami'Separation. And they're so good at it, they can do most things in three. So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, a ''Mutation of Thrushes''phrases, a ''Herd you can get from how to make the sound of Harlotsan Orc army for '' or a ''Superfluity Lord of Nunsthe Rings''? If you are interested films to record-breaking nipple hair. From illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, is only three steps – and the English language path carries on to reach that erstwhile novice stand-up, Ronald Reagan, in two more. It's only two jumps between Donald Trump and the origin of wordsCharles Darwin, then you will really enjoy browsing this bookdisconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Lloyd_1411|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways|author=Paul Simpson John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and Uli HesseJames Harkin|rating=4.5|genre=SportTrivia|summary=In 1982Handsome is as handsome does. And you know what else benefits from being curt and succinct, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer of the Year Allan Simonsenalongside old housewives' saws like that one? Trivia. If the I always thought of the Danish superstar forsaking QI books such as this one to be handsome things – perfectly presenting trivia, four (on rare occasion, three) statements to the glamour of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during page, in a World Cup qualifiervery nice little cubical hardback. Now they're being represented in paperback, but you know what? They're still handsome things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle EnglandLloyd_1339|author=Nigel Cawthorne|rating=4|genre=Humour|summarytitle=It was ever thus… cyclists go too fast, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looks, and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they haven't rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors already1, cooking for their working menfolk… It's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind the 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' tag, and as a book to be shelved alongside those with the wackier letters sent to the ''Daily Telegraph'', these selections from the Royal town's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints and complainants of Kent.339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1908096918</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dedicated to...: The Forgotten FriendshipsJohn Lloyd, Hidden Stories John Mitchinson and Lost Loves found in Second-hand Books|author=W B GooderhamJames Harkin

|genre=EntertainmentTrivia|summary=I have found many strange and unusual things in second-hand bookshops. I have done one or two strange and unusual things in them as well, but thatA spermologer ''s is a different storycollector of trivia''. Twice now I have managed to find Just that sentence tells you a second-hand book, completely signed and dedicated by lot – we're once more in the author, yet discarded by realm of the recipientcurt, and have been able succinct approach to present the author with the edition at hand world's information and get it re-dedicatedoddities. (If I'm not mistakenIt says more, however – beyond the discarders were a neighbouring babysitter, and a teacher weirdness of the author's children.) I'll admit that's rarefied, however, and on word is the whole obvious necessity for the scribble word to exist – without people that could be called collectors of trivia you find in second-hand books is from the person who bought it, and gave it as a gift, would not need the person who wrote itterm. But even soAnd rest assured, there are currently few people that stand as better spermologers than the dedication of the donor can be immensely fascinating and open to all kinds of interpretation, as these examples show perfectly clearchief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593072847</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark ForsythMetcalf_Skedaddle|title=The HorologiconFrom Skedaddle to Selfie: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English LanguageGeneration|author=Allan Metcalf|rating=3.5

|summary=This I have to go a roundabout way to introduce this book just had to be called ''The Horologicon'', so bear with me. Originally it meant It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything from a daily diary different couple of devotion for a priest or monkbooks, and their ideas of generations. Our author knows it is a rare word these days and gives it to his modern Book The authors of Hoursthose posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, which is a guide to similarly obsoletethe Millennials, charming or unusually whimsical words set outand those before, not as others doin between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, as a dictionaryand the history of humanity has been and will be formed by the interplay of just four different kinds, but running (with only one exception) in essays regular order. I don't really hold much store by that, and I certainly didn't know we'd started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for every waking hour one? ''Somebody must have put out an order'', as someone here says of something else. But in the daysame way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and the subject they're most likely those words are certainly a clue to coverwhat was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848314159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arthur PlotnikHalliday_Cathedrals|title=Better Than GreatCathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday|rating=4.5

|summary=Better Than Great What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of anywhere that is made a bravuracity – St Davids is a village of 2, ingeniously inventive000 people and wasn't always a city, but always had a cathedral, roaringly intelligent thesaurus as did Chelmsford. It's not the seat of praise a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and acclaim - ohhasn't had a bishop since 1690. It's not a minster – that'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 better man I, momma! Where has Gunga Din. Luckily this paean-worthybook doesn't touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, distressingly excellent so it's only the vast majority of this bookthat is saddled with the definition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, which certainly goes the whole hogand those it does have are by-passable, for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of major importance, been all my life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641336</amazonuk>fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel LevyBramley_Shakespeare|title=Why?The Shakespeare Trail|author=Zoe Bramley|rating=54

|summary=Why does It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the Titanic float but a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating greatest writer inthe English language, why is it wet? And what colour is itand England's national poet, ‘cos it ain’t clear? These questions died. Shakespeare has made a profound mark on our culture and heritage, yet many more are answered aspects of his life remain in the shadows, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Here, Zoe Bramley takes the reader on a journey through hundreds of places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a surprise to most. Filled with intriguing tidbits of information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, and the places that she talks about, this book which may not be a new concept but which is executed extremely wellno mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David AstleHalliday_London|title=PuzzledLondon (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday|rating=4.5

|summary=Words are wonderful enough when they’re just telling you things straight up, but who can resist them when they’re really being playfulWhat makes a city? Not David Astle Is it the materials, such as the author very London Stone itself, of this new title mythological repute, that blows the lid has moved around several times, and now forms part of a WH Smith's branch? (This has nothing, of course, on Temple Bar, which has also been known to walk.) Is it all with what he calls 'secrets the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]], the bakers (or whoever set fire to the entire city from Pudding Lane) and clues the candlestick makers? Is it the infrastructure, from the Underground, whose one-time boss got a life medal from Stalin for his success, to the London Bridge itself, that in wordsits own wanderlust means it's highly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a city, London certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and the trivial yet fascinating. And, luckily for us, so has this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph PiercyHolland_Railways|title=The Story of EnglishRailways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Julian Holland

|summary=''The Story of English'' sets out to be a potted history How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of York (George VI)? They reopened the influences that have shaped our languageRomney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, from at whose launch the latter had officiated before the Lindisfarne Gospels to LOLcatsWar.com. Starting with What's the pre-Roman Celts worst that can happen when you travel internationally and their Ogham alphabet, it goes crashing through fifteen hundred years of linguistic history at arrive on a terrific pace to end London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an almost audible sigh of relief at unknown corpse before the internet age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178834</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Daoust (editor)|title=Write.|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=The Guardian newspaper has for some years now been publishing articles and interviews on how invoice turns up to writeprove you were wanted in Belgium. Successful authors, agents After so many miles and publishers have offered pearls of wisdom in the Guardian Masterclasses for genres as wide-ranging as travel writingso much drama, picture books it's no surprise odd facts and screenplaysfun trivia derive from our country's trains. Now their wisdom This book is designed to be an ideal source of quick articles and their insights have been collected together fun mini-essays for use in this slim volume which will intrigue both the readers and the writers among ussmallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265328X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel FountainDonald_Words|title=Cliches: Avoid Them Like the PlagueWords of a Feather|author=Graeme Donald

|summary=Cliché is such Words of a Feather. The title alone suggests an awful word with all its connotations of the triteengaging read about language, the hackneyed and the overusedbook certainly delivers. It's 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 word 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 youread them. For example, the link between ''grotto'd hate ' and ''grotesque'' is easy to have associated with your writinggrasp: the word ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''grottoes''. Other connections are just extraordinary, even if like the so-crazy-you produce nothing -couldn't-make-it-up link between ''furnace'' and ''fornicate''. These two words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the city's abandoned baking domes. And some connections are more public than a shopping list but for little tenuous, seemingly just a collection of words banded together, as is the case with the benefit ''insult'' and ''salmon'' pairing. One of my personal favourites: the discerning reader Nigel Fountain has compiled Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to summon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to ''ciao'', a list in alphabetical order word the more well-heeled among us use instead of these dreaded phrases. I began reading, 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 wasngoodbye't rocket science. They agreed that it isn't brain surgery either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843174863</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison MaloneyBinney_English|title=Bright Young ThingsThe English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Ruth Binney

|summary=School days can sometimes seem like a very long time ago. You most likely spent 12 to 14 years of early life learning I live in a classroom, but how the countryside and spend as much can you remember? Sure, you can counttime as the weather will allow exploring it, so the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and you we know your alphabetthat she writes well and interestingly, 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 just one thing was worrying me about this book can help. Covering ten subjects from English and Maths to Science, Home Ec It's a hardback and History, it’s a crash course to refresh your knowledge – all those things you kinda know deep down, beautifully presented but at its the same time have forgotten at least size of book that you slip into a little bitpocket or handbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540029</amazonuk> Would it be rather superficial?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman TschappelerLloyd_1234|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 234 QI Facts to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLeave You Speechless|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 boyJohn Lloyd, although you might have a different opinion if you actually had to put up with his antics yourself. A slightly modernised embodiment of 'slugs John Mitchinson 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 dynamics, 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 EtymologiconJames Harkin

|summary=I like words''No US President has ever died in May. Words '' ''There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are awesomemen named John. End of'' ''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 occupational disease ever recorded in medical literature was 'chimney sweep's scrotum'. But I also like trivia'' ''The song 'Yes, We Have No Bananas' was written by Leon Trotsky's nephew. '' ''In the 18th Century, King George I like knowing things that perhaps other people don’t, and helpfully passing on this knowledge declared all pigeon droppings to thembe the property of the Crown''. So a book about word-related trivia is just a win-win, and this one is so good I hardly think we’ll have I need to call it a win-win-winsay any more. Review over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghBerenson_How|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 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 and the adults willing How to instill some historical trivia into them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpeak Emoji|author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable thingsFred Benenson

|summary=In a world of diamond-encrusted skullsEmojis are fun, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten a penny, there's so much more to them than the smileys of blingy shit (or should that days gone by ;) They can be shitty bling?) it's a relief to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhile. The records for costliest photolanguage unto themselves, artworkthough, musical instrument and manuscript have all been broken in I've found that some members of the twenty four months leading up to this , ahem, older generation can find themselves a little troubled by them. This book's release. Our collators have scoured the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctionsthen, and found what other people paid sounds perfect for what you didnanyone who needs a little help with this 'language't know you would have wanted given the money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie PainLloyd_3rd|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersQI: The Third Book of General Ignorance|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray

|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose Well done, Hartlepool. You didn't put on trial and kill a shipwrecked monkey thinking it a Napoleonic spy – any more than the number 42 as several other places thusly accused ever did. Well done, Italy, for making the answer ciabatta such a global phenomenon it seems like a traditional foodstuff, even if it was invented in 1982. And well done to lifethat famous ice hockey player, Charles Darwin – who was probably playing it, seeing as it was a British invention, long before the universe and everythingCanadians ever realised they might be good at it. In Yes, for 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 that spends a lot of sportits time saying 'this didn’t happen, crime' 'hoojamaflip didn't do this, science ' and a wide range of other fields'that was never thus', it's one that's incredibly easy to be most positive about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher WinnTaggart_New|title=I Never Knew That About New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the River ThamesModern World|author=Caroline Taggart|rating=43.5

|summary=Here are I never declare myself off to have a 'kip', as I recall reading that it originally meant the remains same amount of the building sleeping – and activity – as happens in a whorehouse. The word 'cleave' can mean either to split apart or to connect together, and I'm sure there's another word that could be said has completely changed its meaning from one end of things to have sired two important British royal dynastiesanother although I can't remember which. Here is the place of ill-reputeCertainly, where 'Rule Britannia' was premiered, and which also bizarrely saw literally'' has tried its best to make a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens in the worldfull switch through rampant misuse. Here too Such is the largest lion nature of our language – fluid both in the worldspelling until moderately recently, and definitely in meaning. To where am I referring? Well This attempt at capturing a corner of the answer trivia/words/novelty market is either interested in such tales from the etymological world – the Thames valleyway we have adapted old words for our own, or this modern and perhaps very bookdifferent usages. Certainly, having browsed it over a week, I can declare it a pretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>