{"product_id":"9781398532397","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW The Most Interesting Book in the World by Edward Brooke-Hitching","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 04\/06\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharming, 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 MailDrawn 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.? \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368761307509,"sku":"9781398532397","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398532397.jpg?v=1774539365","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781398532397","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}