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WW Norton & Co Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs And Other Questions
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award “Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, GuardianTrade Review"A charming guide into something we take enormous pains to avoid." -- B. David Zarley - Paste"There’s serious science here, but also cultural lessons in death and dying, a little history, and a touch of gruesomeness wrapped in that shroud of sharp, witty humor." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer - Philadelphia Tribune"My daughter hasn’t put it down. She reads it out loud to me while we giggle." -- Kari Byron, author of Crash Test Girl and former host of Mythbusters"A delightful mixture of science and humor.… Entertaining." -- Library Journal"A surprisingly heart-warming read." -- Christy Lynch - BookPage"Doughty’s answers are as… distinctive as the questions. She blends humor with respect for the dead.… Her investigations of ritual, custom, law and science are thorough, and she doesn’t shy from naming the parts of Grandma’s body that might leak after she is gone." -- Julia Kastner - Shelf Awareness
£14.00
Penguin Putnam Inc The Extraordinary Book of Useless Information
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Worlds Greatest Book of Useless Information
Book SynopsisFrom the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information-a collection of even greater insignificance.More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to know. But honestly, how cool is it to find out that... ? There is a place in Maryland called Monkey's Eyebrow ? Giving yellow flowers is a sign of bad luck in Russia ? One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns ? Paper can be made from asparagus This is the book that will also tell you... ? The meaning of 'mageirocophobia' ? Where it is illegal to kill a butterfly ? Huckleberry Finn's remedy for warts ? What bodily fluid the Romans used as a hair treatment And much, much more!
£11.90
Penguin Publishing Group The Incredible Book of Useless Information Even
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestselling series continues to delight and astound with an all-new collection of surprisingly unnecessary facts and figures. Would it surprise you to learn… •it takes a sloth about a month to digest a meal?•more tourists visit France than any other nation in the world? •the United States still has debt from the Revolutionary War? Do you think you ever need to know…•what type of trees are most frequently struck by lightning? •how much a clerk was paid for penning the U.S. Constitution? •which celebrity uses the pseudonym Slappy White?
£12.59
Penguin Publishing Group Scared ShTless 1003 Facts That Will Scare the Sht
Book SynopsisYou’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll s#*t yourself! Back by popular demand, the mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling 1,001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You. An all-new collection of entertaining and horrifying truths about us, our world, and why we’re totally screwed. With more disturbing facts and fun new topics, including weird celebrities, boobs, the internet, clowns, serial killers, sexual fetishes, bacon, Elvis, things that will eat you, and more. From stupid dead people to halitosis caused by constipation to a singer whose music can get you killed in some Jamaican neighborhoods, it’s all here—everything you need to know about the scary s#*t that surrounds all of us. FACT: Men are four times as likely as women to be struck by lightning. FACT: McDonald’s McRib sandwich contains some of the same ingredients used to manufacture gym mats and running shoes. FACT: Möbius syndrome is a rare
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Wild Gatherings
Book SynopsisMost groups of wildlife can be described as a flock, herd, or shoal—but where is the fun in ending there? — from the IntroductionWhether you're an animal lover or a grammar geek, illustrator Matt Sewell has the perfect menagerie of beasts (and beast-related terms) for your reading pleasure. Along with fifty-five gorgeous color illustrations, Sewell presents the unexpected collective nouns used to describe groups of animals on land, in the air, and in the water. Discover the secret behind a sleuth of bears, keep your eyes open for a watch of nightingales, and learn something new about a school of whales. Illustrated in inimitable watercolor, this book makes a great gift for nature and art lovers everywhere.
£12.74
Penguin Putnam Inc The Book of Origins
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Penguin Putnam Inc The DeTextbook The Stuff You Didnt Know about the
Book SynopsisYou are an idiot.Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyramids really looked like. You're even pooping wrong - Jesus, you're a wreck!But it's going to be okay. Because we're here to help. Packed with more sexy facts than the Encyclopedia Pornographica, the Cracked De-Textbook will teach you about the true stars of history, why you picture everything from Velociraptors to Ancient Rome incorrectly, and finally, at long last - how to pop a proper squat. This book was built from the ground up to systematically seek out, dismantle and destroy the many untruths that years of misguided education have left festering inside of you, and leave you a smarter person...whether you like it or not. The De-Textbook is a merciless, brutal learning machine. It can't be bargaine
£19.55
Dover Publications Inc. Remarkable Women Word Search Puzzles
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£10.69
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Literary Listblitz
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£17.99
Faber & Faber The EFG Bumper Book of QI Annuals
Book SynopsisThe QI Annuals are the nearest things to having the hit BBC1 TV show live in your living room. Top comedians and brainiacs, from Stephen Fry and Alan Davies to guests such as Phill Jupitus, Jo Brand, Clive Anderson, Jeremy Clarkson and Rowan Atkinson, have joined top cartoonists and illustrators, and the estimiable QI elves themselves in the first three QI Annuals, covering the letters E, F and G (starting at A is so overrated). Collected by the writers of the BBC show, QI, and authors of the worldwide bestsellers The Book of General Ignorance and 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, here is a hilarious and informative selection of the QI team''s fun facts. Featuring the likes of Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and many other QI guests, this bumper paperback edition is the perfect Christmas gift for pub quiz experts, fans of Guinness World Records and lovers of all things QI.
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Faber & Faber Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am
Book SynopsisWith over 300 real questions from primary school aged children, the book offers bite-sized answers from world class experts - digestible in under 60 seconds.
£10.44
Faber & Faber QI The Book of Animal Ignorance
Book SynopsisJoin QI''s expedition into the animal kingdom to encounter 100 of its most remarkable subjects. Marvel at the elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom.Albatrosses can fly non-stop for ten years without touching the ground Box jellyfish have twenty-four eyes Geese mourn their dead Koalas don''t drinkMonkeys pay to look at porn Lobsters live for a century Mice sing while having sex Spiders can fly
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Faber & Faber QI The Second Book of General Ignorance
Book SynopsisJust when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off are back. With a foreword by Stephen Fry, this parcel of unimaginable information is here to solve a few common misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings. Octopuses have six legs, oranges aren''t orange, bats aren''t blind, napoleon wasn''t short, vikings didn''t wear horned helmets, there is no such thing as a fish. QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance is the essential set text for everyone who''s proud to admit that they don''t know everything, and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do. John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are the bestselling authors of QI: The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off. Here they present a wonderful collection of astonishingly interesting facts, perfect for pub quiz lovers, trivia
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Faber & Faber QI The Book of the Dead
Book SynopsisWelcome to QI: The Book of the Dead, a biographical dictionary with a twist - one where only the most interesting people made it in!QI have got together six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from history. Celebrate their wisdom, learn from their mistakes and marvel at their bad taste in clothes. Hans Christian Anderson was terrified of naked women, Florence Nightingale spent her last fifty years in bed, Sigmund Freud smoked twenty cigars a day, Catherine de Medici applied a daily face mask made of pigeon dung, Rembrandt van Rijn died penniless and Madame Mao banned cicadas, rustling noises and pianos. Carefully collected and ordered by the QI team into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as ''There''s Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life'', ''Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone''. Each chapter reveals hilarious insights into the true nature of the most interesting people who ever lived, including Isaac Newton, Ge
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Faber & Faber 1423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over Quite Interesting
Book Synopsis''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans The sixth book in the bestselling series brings bizarre, astonishing, conversation-starting facts from the clever clogs at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI. Did you know that: Iceland imports ice cubes. A group of ladybirds is called a loveliness. It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandi. Eight billion particles of fog can fit into a teaspoon. People who read books live longer than people who don't. Prince Philip was born on a kitchen table in Corfu. No human beings have ever had sex in space. Netfiix's biggest competitor is sleep. Mice sigh up to 40 times an hour.
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Faber & Faber You Goddess
Book Synopsis''What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.''OLIVIA COLMAN Channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift book. ''Wonderful.'' CERYS MATTHEWSWhether it's the Norse warrior goddess Freya breaking all the rules, the Yoruba goddess Oshun being unafraid to ask for what she's owed, or the Japanese goddess Uzume finding humour and playfulness in even the most embarrassing of situations: this fierce and fantastic tour of 25 ancient deities reclaims these feminist icons for a new generation.Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess?Divinely illustrated by Georgia Perry, You Goddess! will help you conquer today's world.
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Faber & Faber Funny You Should Ask . . .
Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'.
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Faber & Faber Funny You Should Ask . . .
Book SynopsisEVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask ''why...?''. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE BALLPre-order the next book in this series, 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions, published in paperback on 3rd November.''QI have outdone themselves!'' ALAN DAVIES ''Fabulous . . . A cracker of a book!'' SUE PERKINSThe QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant.'' ZOE BALL''Genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating.'' THE SPECTATOR''Hilarious.'' DAILY MAILThe QI Elves are the brains behind the enduringly popular BBC TV panel show QI.Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of BBC Radio 2's most
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Faber & Faber 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions
Book SynopsisEVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW*The perfect gift for the incurably curious* This edition includes all new, even more ingenious questions and answers! It was previously published in hardback as Funny You Should Ask . . . Again.''The best trivia book of the season.'' THE SPECTATOR''Mind-blowing.'' DAILY MAIL''Genuinely interesting.'' POPULAR SCIENCEWhich lottery numbers should I pick?Is it true that we are made entirely of stardust?Can dogs tell the time?Why do songs get stuck in my head?If Rome wasn''t built in a day, how long did it take?Do plants make noises?Where is last Wednesday?These are just a few of the questions put to the QI Elves by the listeners of BBC Radio 2's The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. This book is a
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Penguin Publishing Group How To
Book SynopsisAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can''t help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity''s effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won''t go wrong with How To.” —CNET “[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz The world''s most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, and What If? 2, coming September 13, 2022For any task you might want to do, there''s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It''s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you''re a baby boomer or a 90''s kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you''re done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth''s mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn''t just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
£13.60
Not Stated Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
Book SynopsisA physics professor and a popular online cartoonist use their signature brand of humor honed on their podcast ?Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe? to provide short, accessible and lighthearted answers to questions about time, space, gravity, and wormholes. Illustrations.
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Penguin Publishing Group Love Triangle
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Penguin Putnam Inc ShT for Brains
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Zeitgeist The Ultimate Intimacy Game for Couples
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Octopus Publishing Group The Telegraph General Knowledge Crosswords 1
Book SynopsisTelegraph puzzle books have sold in excess of 1.5 million copies since their launch. The Daily Telegraph is the UK's most widely read, quality newspaper, with a daily circulation of over 600,000. Telegraph readers have a strong brand loyalty, with books associated with the brand, such as Am I Alone in Thinking: Unpublished Letters to the Editor selling nearly 100,000 copies.
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Octopus Publishing Group The Telegraph Ultimate General Knowledge
Book SynopsisImpress all your friends at your next pub quiz by becoming an expert in everything from history to sport, science to popular entertainment. This fantastic collection of puzzles provides the perfect solitary entertainment for a quiet moment, and you can discover a fantastic range of facts at the same time.
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Octopus Publishing Group The Telegraph General Knowledge Crosswords 3 The
Book SynopsisCovering a wide range of topics, these varied and challenging puzzles will provide hours of amusement for general knowledge and crossword enthusiasts alike. Whether on the daily commute or relaxing at home, the Telegraph General Knowledge Crosswords 3 is a great selection of the popular puzzles from Britain''s best-selling quality newspaper.Impress all your friends at the next pub quiz by perfecting your knowledge of everything from history to sport, science and popular entertainment. This fantastic collection of puzzles provides the perfect solitary entertainment for every quiet moment while allowing you to build a fantastic range of facts on the tip of your tongue.
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British Museum Press Treasures of the British Museum
Book SynopsisThe BM is the greatest treasure house in the world and it could fill many books with pretty pictures ... but this is more than that. A choice selection of topics, some well known and obvious (Sutton Hoo, the Royal Cemeteries at Ur, the Elgin Marbles), others less obvious (the Folkton Drums, the Lothar Crystal), fifty in all, serve as the basis for description and discussion of both objects and collectors and the way in which the BM has acquired them. This unusual and interesting approach makes for a magnificent book: superb pictures, highly readable descriptions and lots of human interest anecdotes. The 2009 edition is significantly expanded with twelve new objects discussed, representing a refocusing away from Europe and the Near East and also showcasing artefacts, such as the Ringlemere Cup, acquired over the last few decades. `About as good as a book of this sort can be. A magnificent present ... if you can bear to part with it.''Table of Contents1. Forward, Introduction; 2. Treasure; 3. Civilisations rediscovered; 4. Sculpture; 5. Aspects of the Divine; 6. To the ends of the earth; 7. Temples and Tombs; 8. Pottery and Porcelain; 9. The Art of the Craftsman; 10. Art, Artists, and Art Collectors; 11. The Collecting Passion; 12. The Story of the British Museum.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Literature Lovers Book of Lists Serious Trivia
Book SynopsisThis fascinating compendium of hundreds of lists providing thousands of interesting and entertaining facts, terms and trivia about literature, related to genres, literary periods, themes, authors, characters and awards.Table of ContentsAbout This Resource. Section 1. Literature. . . An Introduction. Section 2. Books. . . For All Ages. Section 3. Genres. . . For Every Taste. Section 4. Poetry. . . Reflection of the Soul. Section 5. Drama. . . Drama. . . Thereby Hangs a Tale. Section 6. Themes. . .Under One Umbrella. Section 7. Literary Periods. . .Intro One Era and Out the Other. Section 8. Potpourri. . .Weird, Whimsical, and Worthwhile. Section 9. Endings. . .References and Aids. Index of Authors.
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Penguin Publishing Group We Have No Idea
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Galison Question Sparks
Book SynopsisFinally some conversations starters that won''t make you feel like you''re in a group therapy session. Inside you''ll find 200 unique and entertaining things that are actually interesting to talk aboutyou know, like ''What''s the worst bathroom that you''ve ever been in?'' or ''What childhood toy are you still a little resentful that you never got?'' Includes 200 question cards and some rules to turn it all into a game (if you want to, that is). Topics like ''What''s the pettiest reason you''ve ever broken up with someone?'' and ''What''s a secret talent no one in the room knows you have?'' Each card measures 1.5 tall by 3.5 wide. (38mm x 89mm) Box measures 4.1 x 4.1 x 2 deep (104mm x 104mm x 50.8mm).
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Galison Weird Sports Trivia
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Harvest House Publishers OneMinute Mysteries and Brain Teasers
Book SynopsisReaders will enjoy discovering the answers to—or being stumped by—these interactive mysteries. In brief paragraphs and black-and-white illustrations, Sandy Silverthorne and John Warner present 70 puzzles, each with a logical “aha” answer that requires thinking outside the box. Clues and answers are included in separate sections.
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DK The Big Trivia Quiz Book
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Little, Brown Book Group Horny Lizards And Headless Chickens Everything
Book SynopsisHORNY LIZARDS AND HEADLESS CHICKENS is a vile and disgusting compendium of the world''s most unpleasant creatures, diseases, hideous tortures and every other type of horrifying, nauseating fact imaginable. Questions posed in the book address revolting matters such as:* Do flies really puke on your food?* Which worm can eat its way through the human eye?* And how long does a head remain conscious after being guillotined?In HORNY LIZARDS AND HEADLESS CHICKENS, readers can explore a huge range of horrible subjects, which most books have the good sense to avoid, including Aztec sacrifices, bizarre medical treatments, body snatchers, cannibalism, and eye-wateringly unpleasant execution methods. You are guaranteed a brilliantly sickening read.
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The History Press Ltd Reads Musical Reciter
Book SynopsisMike Read''s knowledge of the world''s greatest pop music is brought together in this cornucopia of anecdotes, amazing tales and extraordinary facts. He looks at the strange, unexpected and sometimes alarming side of the music business.
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The History Press Ltd Who Was Mr Nobody
Book SynopsisEveryone has had the experience of hearing, seeing or reading something they just know can''t be right: the man in the pub claiming that someone has ''proved'' Napoleon was murdered; the reputable historian who writes that George II died on the toilet, or the feature film that shows Rasputin, shot repeatedly, rising from the icy river Neva, still alive.Wouldn''t it be richly satisfying to clear up these mysteries and misrepresentations? In the follow-up to their highly successful ''Debunking History'', history buffs Ed Rayner and Ron Stapley put their egghead brains to the task of establishing the correct answers to a host of teasing historical questions and exasperating mysteries. Now, the indefatigable myth-slayers cover world themes and events from the Princes in the Tower to the first man on the moon. They look at the death of Hitler and find out who the real Snow White was and whether she lived with... seven short miners.They also reveal all on th
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The History Press Ltd The Little Book of Warwickshire
Book SynopsisRevealed within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Warwickshire’s famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, battles and sieges, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, and its customs ancient and modern, including the 800-year-old Atherstone Ball Game which is still played every Shrove Tuesday.
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The History Press Ltd Never Mind the Penalties
Book SynopsisEngland haven’t won it since 1966 but every time the World Cup is played, there’s always hope that this year will be the year. Never Mind the Penalties is the ultimate collection of World Cup teasers, pulling together the highs and lows, the match-winners and the madness, the bizarre and the beautiful from football’s greatest tournament.
£6.99
The History Press Ltd Never Mind the Sky Blues
Book SynopsisFrom the earliest days of Singers FC, to the glory-filled promotion years under Jimmy Hill, from cup calamities to winning at Wembley, and from the thirty four unbroken years of top-flight football to recent relegations, all Coventry City topics are covered here.
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The History Press Ltd Never Mind the Tartan Army
Book SynopsisHere is the ultimate quiz book on Scotland’s national team. An ideal gift for Tartan fans of all ages, here’s the chance to test fellow supporters on World Cups, famous games against England, favourite managers and cult heroes, including R.S. McColl, Jimmy Quinn, Jimmy McGrory and Kenny Dalglish.
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The History Press Ltd The Little Book of Norwich
Book SynopsisNorwich is a city that has seen it all.Looking at conflicts, sports, entertainment, traditions and all that makes Norwich special, this book will entertain and enthrall all those looking for some frivolous facts about this marvellous city.
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History Press Never Mind the Canaries
Book SynopsisYes, you’ve a shirt or two, you even know the first verse of ‘On The Ball City’, but do you really know the history of the club? A book for any and all supporters of that mighty team in yellow and green, it’s the perfect companion for those long journeys to away games or nights down at the local.
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The History Press Ltd Never Mind the Drop Goal
Book SynopsisThe Rugby World Cup: it’s the scrum of the earth, the biggest, the best and the most prestigious rugby union tournament in the world.Never Mind the Drop Goal is the ultimate collection of Rugby World Cup teasers. Some questions are as tough as a touchline kick for goal, others as straightforward as a penalty in front of the posts.
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The History Press Ltd Never Mind the Gunners 2
Book SynopsisThe perfect sequel for all Arsenal fans who want to test themselves to the limit with all-new questions
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The History Press Ltd The Blue Badge Guides Edinburgh Quiz Book
Book SynopsisCelebrating Edinburgh’s diverse riches, this quiz book invites you to come on a wide-ranging exploration of Scotland’s hilly capital.
£7.59
The History Press Ltd The Little Book of Stillorgan
Book SynopsisThe Little Book of Stillorgan is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this vibrant suburb of Dublin.
£13.49
