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...
