' Charming hilarious and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party.
Or the most annoying' - Adam Rutherford ‘Weird and wonderful facts you didn’t know you
needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia’ - Sun ‘Joyously bizarre facts in
a new book from a QI brainbox’ - Daily Mail Drawn from a former BBC QI Elf' s
lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful The Most Interesting Book in The World is a
miscellany of things too strange to be true yet somehow are. This remarkable treasury of
tales and trivia will whisk you on a jaw-dropping journey through time and space stopping off
to marvel at only the obscure the startling and the straight-up weird. In it Edward
Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as: Why is a cat technically a liquid and a solid?
How did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens? Why did the Dutch once eat
their prime minister? Nowhere else will you find woven together the stories of the
religious leader who attempted to build a robot messiah from a dining table the anti-gravity
‘air-walkers’ of Victorian London and the pirates who rode sheep or practical advice for
correctly exorcising a house and casting ancient love spells along with recent scientific
discoveries like the mould that can navigate a maze and that humans can glow in the dark. A
unique hybrid of encyclopaedia trivia and drunken-bar raconteur all stitched together in one
colossal Frankenstein volume packed full of images and photographs - this is the ultimate
must-read for anyone looking to tickle the cortex of their curiosity.
