The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything

- Reviews -

I loved it. Jonn Elledge is a charming and outstandingly nerdish guide. A big, generous, fascinating book, best dipped into on a rainy Sunday with the snooker on in the background. * Robert Webb * I love Jonn Elledge' s brain, and his tireless quests to boggle everyone else' s. I strongly suggest you hitchhike a ride with this book, which is a travelogue of the weird and wonderful, a galaxy of things in our world and beyond that I simply didn' t have a clue about. I am now slightly less clueless, much more entertained, and I briefly understood the Beaufort Scale. That alone causes me to break out the adjective "indispensable". * Marina Hyde * A hyper-nerdy, tightly written masterpiece . . . It sucks you in like a fucking tar pit. * Ian Martin, writer of The Thick of It and Veep * It sounds like a mess until you realise it' s actually the world that is a mess and this fascinating, funny book is the only fixed point of sanity we' ve got. * Hugo Rifkind * An unholy cross between Douglas Adams and Bill Bryson, this compendium of strange, funny and surprising facts is the perfect loo book. * Helen Lewis * If you ever wondered what a parsec was, or how language developed, or how many wars have been fought over cows, or whether a large straw goat has ever been held in a secret location by Swedish police, I heartily recommend this book. Elledge' s natural curiosity has been brilliantly harnessed, answering questions you didn' t know you had with more clarity and wit than is fair for any single writer to contain. * Linda Tirado * Consistently both entertaining and fascinating. Jonn has explored a lifetime' s worth of 2am Wikipedia holes so that you don' t have to. * Ahir Shah * Joyous, mind-expanding, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of nerdy gusto. * Ian Dunt * Open this book at any page and you will learn new things. Jonn somehow manages to make the world seem at the same time more orderly and ungraspably huge and varied. * Helen Zaltzman *

- Author Bio -

Jonn Elledge is a regular contributor to the Big Issue and the New Statesman, a less regular contributor to other titles such as the Guardian and Wired, and an almost constant contributor to the weekly Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. He was previously assistant editor of the New Statesman, where he was responsible for launching and editing the urbanism site CityMetric, hosting the Skylines podcast and writing a lot of angry columns about the housing crisis. He lives in the East End of London, where he has probably spent more time thinking about tube station naming conventions than is strictly speaking healthy.

- Full Details -

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9781472276476
Published:	16 Sep 2021
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Wildfire
Publisher:	Headline Publishing Group
Format:	Hardback
Height:	222mm
Width:	138mm
Pages:	304

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