by Sarah Burton - £9.99 Short Books Ltd (2013)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781780721835 | ISBN 10: 1780721838
When his teacher sets the class a History project, Sam cannot choose which bit of History he prefers, so decides to do ALL OF IT.
His version of History is a rumbustious collection of half-remembered facts, assembled roughly in the right order, and glued together with alarmingly confident misunderstanding.
And yet our endearing narrator somehow inadvertently hits the nail on the head every time – as when he sagely observes that the Suffragettes’ hunger strikes paid off ‘in the name of Female Emaciation’, or that before Shakespeare came along ‘everyone had been a bit rubbish at poetry’ (notwithstanding Jeffrey Chortler, saviour of the Middle Agers’).
Sam takes us from Ancient Egypt right up to Last Week with the flair of a bright-eyed nine-year-old. Rumour has it he is now working on an even more ambitious tome, The Entire World and Everything In It.
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