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The Book of the Year 2018: Your Definitive Guide to the World’s Weirdest News

The Book of the Year 2018: Your Definitive Guide to the World’s Weirdest News

by NoSuchThingAsAFish (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

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Synopsis

Think you know what happened in 2018? Think again. Following hot on the heels of the success of The Book of the Year (or, more precisely, twelve months later), The Book of the Year 2018 bravely delves behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the past 12 months. Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI, it will establish - among other things - that: * Britain's first robot shop assistant was sacked after a week * Donald Trump claimed the US sells F52 planes to Norway, even though F52 planes only exist in the game Call of Duty * During the Winter Olympics, it was so windy during the Women's Slopestyle Final that every single competitor was blown off her snowboard. * A snail racing competition in Plymouth was postponed because the snails were too 'sluggish' to take part. Ranging from the distinctly offbeat to the wonderfully ludicrous - from the South Africans who were rationed to just one toilet flush per day, to the Nutella riots spreading across France, via the Miami bitcoin conference that stopped accepting bitcoin - The Book of the Year promises a fact for every occasion and will prove the perfect Christmas gift for all trivia buffs.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Random House Books
Published: 18 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1847948391
ISBN 13: 9781847948397
Book Overview: The team behind No Such Thing As A Fish return with another eye-opening tour of the incredible year you didn't know you'd lived through.

Media Reviews
Hugely enjoyable . . . Deserves to become an annual institution . . . Its tone is just right: deadpan, sharp and disarmingly offbeat. -- 5 * review, Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
The Book of the Year [is] a compendium of topical facts in 365 categories. It's laced with their dry wit, and likely to end up in many a pub-quizzer's Christmas stocking. * Daily Telegraph *
A factually relevant look at a baffling 12 months. -- Best Books for Christmas * iNews *
QI is such an institution that even the programme's researchers are taking over the world. Fully justified that is too, as anyone who's heard their podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish, will confirm. It's packed with killer facts - and so is this book. * Daily Mail *
If you love funny facts as much as we love funny facts then you should get your funny fact-loving faces in front of The Book of the Year. -- Comedy Central (via @ComedyCentralUK)
Absolutely ideal for the Christmas holidays. -- Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 6 Music
A bumper anthology of ridiculous but true facts from the anoraks (and QI researchers) behind hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. * Metro *
Both fantastically absorbing and entertaining. * The Bookseller *
The Book of The Year will prove the perfect Christmas gift, the ideal conversation starter (and stopper), and the ultimate source of wisdom for all lovers of trivia. -- British Comedy Guide
Bitesize chunks of truth in a year of fake news. If you love fact-based trivia, you'll get a kick out of this. -- Funniest Books for Christmas * Irish Times *
Author Bio
No Such Thing As A Fish is a team of researchers who work on the BBC TV show QI. Each week they gather together in their Covent Garden office and record a podcast discussing the most interesting facts they've discovered over the previous seven days. In the three years since it launched, the show has attracted 1.4 million weekly listeners, won multiple awards, been transformed into the spin-off topical BBC2 TV series No Such Thing As The News, performed a sell-out UK tour, and been named one of iTunes' top 10 most downloaded podcasts of 2016. The team is made up of James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber. James is the head writer on QI, with ten series and five bestselling books under his belt. He has also appeared on TV quiz shows Fifteen to One and Only Connect, reaching the semi-finals in the latter and embarrassingly crashing out of the former. Andrew is a writer and comedian who also contributes to Private Eye magazine, is a member of the improv troupe Austentatious, and has staged his own one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe. He is known to fans (his mum) as `Lightning'. Anna is a QI scriptwriter who has previously worked in Scottish politics and Australian advertising, as well as selling fruit wine and hay-baling in the Highlands. She refuses to join Twitter. #GetAnnaOnTwitter Dan loves yetis.