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  • The Weird World of Words

    A Guided Tour

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    Illustrated by Andrew Pinder ...
    Did you know that 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order ? Or that 'Stewardesses' is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren't actually flies, they're beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ultimate Celebrity Lists Book

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    Everything you ever wanted to know about celebrities but were either afraid–or didn't know what–to ask.Mitchell Symons' compilation of miscellaneous facts surrounding the lives of the rich and famous will dazzle, delight and occasionally dismay the reader as he reveals the kinds of facts that most books omit. What these head-scratching lists all have in common is that they’re not available on ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies?

    ...And Other Naughty Questions You Always Wanted Answered

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    Of course you have! (Or if you haven't, perhaps you should.) Now Mitchell Symons, the reigning King of All Pointless Trivia, carries his inquisitiveness unabashedly into the bedroom and emerges with a smile, answering not only the above but also a veritable "pornucopia" of scandalous and sexual conundrums. So for all of you burning to learn that an octopus has sex for ten straight hours or ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bumper Book For The Loo

    Facts and figures, stats and stories – an unputdownable treat of trivia

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    When Mitchell Symons wrote his extraordinary bestsellers This Book, That Book and The Other Book - all neatly combined in one sensational volume, The Ultimate Loo Book - he was judged by many to be the King of Trivia. Now, in***The Bumper Book for the Loo,*** this supremo of weird and wonderful, astonishing and inexplicable facts, figures, stats and stories returns with... ... Read more

    $2.00 USD

  • The Greatest Trivia Book Ever 1

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    All my life I’ve collected weird and wonderful facts. Even before ‘trivia’ was (or should that be ‘were’?) invented, I’ve been obsessed with the pursuit of what you might call worthless knowledge. Now, after a lifetime’s devotion to the cause, I’m proud to present to you my favourite facts of all time. My greatest hits, if you will. Most of what you will read has been acquired organically, from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Trivia Book Ever 2

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    All my life I’ve collected weird and wonderful facts. Even before ‘trivia’ was (or should that be ‘were’?) invented, I’ve been obsessed with the pursuit of what you might call worthless knowledge. Now, after a lifetime’s devotion to the cause, I’m proud to present to you my favourite facts of all time. My greatest hits, if you will. Most of what you will read has been acquired organically, from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desert Island Discs: Flotsam & Jetsam

    Fascinating facts, figures and miscellany from one of BBC Radio 4’s best-loved programmes

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    Flotsam & Jetsam is the ultimate trivia book for fans of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, and a fascinating introduction for all those who have yet to discover its delights.Taking the reader through seven decades of wonderful entertainment, here is an absorbing range of facts, figures and miscellany – including who chose what, and why. It also reveals much about the castaways ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • That's So Gross!: Human Body

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    Series Book 4 - That's So Gross!
    NOXIOUS NOISES AND STINKY SMELLS . . .Amaze your mates with top trivia such as:Why do we puke and sweat?Which tribe uses farting as a greeting?How likely are you to be injured by a toilet seat? ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Why Girls Can't Throw

    ...and Other Questions You Always Wanted Answered

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    Warning: the truth can be shocking, seductive, offensive, outrageous...even disgusting!Are you perplexed by the mysteries of the universe, confounded by the workings of the human body, prone to pondering the great imponderables? At long last, the answers are here for every inquiring mind that's not afraid to face up to the cold, hard facts of life. The author who brought you That Book . . . of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Book... of the Most Perfectly Useless Information

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    The latest entry in Mitchell Symons's trivia trifecta is chock-full of more obscure scientific facts, sporting stats, celebrity gossip, and pure trivia than ever!Did you know that:Polar bears cover their black noses with their paws for better camouflage?John Steinbeck had to rewrite Of Mice and Men because his dog ate the first draft?Wayne Newton is a descendant of Pocahontas?Oscars given out ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Why Don't You Smell When You're Sleeping?

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    Did you know...that a 'zyzzyx' is a type of wasp?that the chances of being injured by a toilet seat at some point in your life are reckoned to be one in 6.500?that the collective noun for giraffes is the very apt a 'tower of giraffes'and that snail races start with the words 'ready, steady, SLOW!'Amaze your mates and fascinate your family with these brilliant facts, and more! ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Happily Never After

    Modern Cautionary Tales

    by Mitchell Symons ...
    From bestselling revolting reference expert Mitchell Symons comes this wickedly funny modern take on Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses.Meet a true rogue's gallery of horrid kids who hit the skids. Callum: who was a dreadful bully until he received his come-uppance; Tiffany: who couldn't put down her mobile phone and died a horrible death; Bill: whose ability to fart ended in tears and Chloe: ... Read more

    $9.69 USD