Discover the ' Horrible Histories for adults' Sunday Times bestselling guide to the forgotten
heroes of history the perfect gift or funny stocking filler for the history lover in your
life. 'All at once funny touching dazzlingly informative and fascinating brilliantly
imaginative and altogether wonderful. Capable of switching between divine silliness and
genuinely tender sweetness tragedy and wonder.' Stephen Fry _________ History belongs to
the heroes. But to get the full story sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The
lives of Leonardo da Vinci Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate
scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the
renaissance master the servant who oversaw the Tudor's toilet time or the famous horse who
thrilled the miserable old monarch. These supporting cast members have been waiting in the
wings for too long and Adrian Bliss thinks it's high time they join their glory-hogging
contemporaries in the spotlight. Fortunately - thanks to some recently discovered ancient
complaint letters court transcripts and memoirs in bottles - now they can. Equal parts
fascinating and hilarious the Greatest Nobodies of History is a surreal love letter to life's
forgotten heroes featuring hitherto undocumented accounts from Ancient Greece to the frontlines
of the Great Emu War. All that follows really happened and some of it could even be true...
