The Book of the Year 2018

Oct 9, 2024 8:29 AM

Author:No Such Thing As A Fish

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‘My favourite geeks. Hilarious. Sideways. Brilliant.’ Tim Minchin

In a year dominated by Russian collusion and Brexit confusion, The Book of the Year returns with another dose of barely believable yet wholly unimpeachable facts and stories from the past twelve months.

Every week for the past four years, Dan, James, Anna and Andy – the creators of the award-winning, chart-topping comedy podcast No Such Thing As A Fish – have wowed each other and millions of their listeners with the most astonishing trivia they have learned over the previous seven days. Now, once again, they have put down the microphones, picked up their pencils, and transformed a year’s worth of weird and wonderful happenings into one uplifting book that you won’t be able to put down.

Discover how Peruvian mummies affected the World Cup, and why Love Island contestants are experts in game theory – as well as hundreds of stories that may have passed you by entirely, including the news that:

· NASA sent a man with a fear of heights to the International Space Station.

· An ice hotel in Canada caught fire.

· Mark Zuckerberg’s private data was compromised while he was talking to Congress about compromised data.

From Kim Jong Un’s personal potty to Jeremy Corbyn’s valuable vegetables, The Book of the Year 2018 is an eye-opening tour of yet another incredible year you didn’t know you’d lived through.

Reviews

The sheer scope of the research takes the breath away, and the humour is perfectly judged.

—— The Season’s Best Gift Books , Spectator

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

The weirdest facts behind the headlines of the previous 12 months.

—— Books of the Year , Mail on Sunday

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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