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The Most Interesting Book in the World

by Edward Brooke-Hitching - £14.99  Simon & Schuster Ltd (2024)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781398532373 | ISBN 10: 1398532371

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.

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