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The Most Interesting Book in the World
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About The Book
'Charming, hilarious, and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party. Or the most annoying' - Adam Rutherford
‘Weird and wonderful facts you didn’t know you needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia’ - Sun
‘Joyously bizarre facts in a new book from a QI brainbox’ - Daily Mail
Drawn from a former BBC QI Elf's lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are.
This remarkable treasury of tales and trivia will whisk you on a jaw-dropping journey through time and space, stopping off to marvel at only the obscure, the startling and the straight-up weird.
In it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:
Nowhere else will you find woven together the stories of the religious leader who attempted to build a robot messiah from a dining table, the anti-gravity ‘air-walkers’ of Victorian London, and the pirates who rode sheep; or practical advice for correctly exorcising a house and casting ancient love spells, along with recent scientific discoveries like the mould that can navigate a maze and that humans can glow in the dark.
A unique hybrid of encyclopaedia, trivia and drunken-bar raconteur, all stitched together in one colossal Frankenstein volume packed full of images and photographs - this is the ultimate must-read for anyone looking to tickle the cortex of their curiosity.
‘Weird and wonderful facts you didn’t know you needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia’ - Sun
‘Joyously bizarre facts in a new book from a QI brainbox’ - Daily Mail
Drawn from a former BBC QI Elf's lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are.
This remarkable treasury of tales and trivia will whisk you on a jaw-dropping journey through time and space, stopping off to marvel at only the obscure, the startling and the straight-up weird.
In it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:
- Why is a cat technically a liquid and a solid?
- How did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens?
- Why did the Dutch once eat their prime minister?
Nowhere else will you find woven together the stories of the religious leader who attempted to build a robot messiah from a dining table, the anti-gravity ‘air-walkers’ of Victorian London, and the pirates who rode sheep; or practical advice for correctly exorcising a house and casting ancient love spells, along with recent scientific discoveries like the mould that can navigate a maze and that humans can glow in the dark.
A unique hybrid of encyclopaedia, trivia and drunken-bar raconteur, all stitched together in one colossal Frankenstein volume packed full of images and photographs - this is the ultimate must-read for anyone looking to tickle the cortex of their curiosity.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (December 4, 2024)
- Length: 320 pages
- ISBN13: 9781398532373
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Raves and Reviews
‘I’ve enjoyed delving into The Most Interesting Book in the World, Edward Brooke-Hitching’s hotch-potch of trivia’
– Patrick Kidd, The Times
‘Mesmerising pages of stuff’
– Scottish Mail on Sunday
‘Joyously bizarre facts in a new book from a QI brainbox’
– Daily Mail
‘Weird and wonderful facts you didn’t know you needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia’
– Sun
'Charming, hilarious, and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party. Or the most annoying'
– Adam Rutherford
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