Mrs. Brown's A to Y of Everything

Oct 9, 2024 4:19 PM

Author:Brendan O'Carroll

Dive into Mrs Brown's A to Y of Everything by writer and star of NTA winning show Mrs Browns Boys, Brendan O'Carroll.

The hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Mrs Brown's Family Handbook.

If there's one Mammy in the world who knows what's what, it's Mrs Brown. Star of the incredibly popular TV show Mrs Brown's Boys, and the hit movie, here Agnes Brown follows up her bestselling Mrs Brown's Family Handbook with an A to Y (who really needs fecking 'Z's anyway?) of modern life.

In this comical encyclopaedia, Agnes explores everything from pandas to piles, from biscuits to The Big Bang and from happiness to hairdryers. Peppered with her inimitable humour and full of hilarious photos, Mrs Brown's A to Y of Everything is your definitive guide to all things Mrs Brown.

Brendan O'Carroll is an Irish writer, producer, comedian, actor, director and author. He is best known for playing Agnes Brown in Mrs Brown's Boys, which won the best sitcom BAFTA in 2012 and best comedy at the National Television Awards in 2020. He has written four films and nine comedy shows, including The Course (1995) and The Last Wedding (1999). He has also published seven novels, including The Mammy, The Scrapper and The Young Wan - a number of which have been translated into 12 languages.

Reviews

Jolly, packed with impressive and silly facts . . . hooray for No Such Thing As A Fish.

—— Observer

Knowledge-packed and riotously funny.

—— The Times

A factually relevant look at a baffling 12 months.

—— Best Books for Christmas , iNews

It’s fair to say the podcast has been “quite” successful. Its episodes have been listened to more than 100 million times, with 1.5 million new streams every month . . . 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

[No Such Thing As A Fish] drop so many facts your head will spin!

—— Guardian

No Such Thing As A Fish is the hit podcast presented by the funny guys and girls at QI . . . The Book of the Year shares all of the lesser known facts from the year of 2017.

—— Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2

Brilliant and funny . . . educational as well as entertaining. A rare but valuable combination.

—— Huffington Post

Hugely enjoyable . . . this tome is just right: deadpan, sharp and disarmingly offbeat.

—— Event

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)

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

Absolutely ideal for the Christmas holidays.

—— Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 6

A bumper anthology of ridiculous but true facts from the anoraks (and QI researchers) behind hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.

—— Metro

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

Since 2003, the Elves have unearthed countless weird and wonderful truths and gems of general ignorance for QI, their 100-million-times-downloaded weekly podcast No Such Thing as A Fish, topical TV spin-off No Such Thing as the News and their many books, such as their newly released Book of the Year.

—— Radio Times

Expect to be amazed.

—— Daily Telegraph

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.

—— The British Comedy Guide

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