Misc

Roughly a thousand fascinating, totally random croutons of information on every topic in the known universe. You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, but fortunately you’ll be laughing so much you won’t realise you’ve learned anything. Highly recommended! * Andrew Hunter-Murray *Don’t even think about putting this book beside the loo. You’ll never get off the loo * Matthew Parris *A visual feast of trivia… I love, love, loved it! * Angela Barnes *Intriguing, entertaining and stylishly delivered * Ian Hislop *Misc. is a bitesize delight. Every entry could be the start of a novel, they’re so telling, and niche. Joyful! * Molly Flatt *This is a book to end each day with - revelling in the arcane - facts so absurd that they can only be true - a delight * Robin Ince *A fantastic casserole of trivia from cover to cover * Steve Williams *Definitely the craziest miscellany I’ve ever seen. And the most joyful. Loved it * Professor David Crystal *A gleaming trove of surprising, funny and beautifully designed trivia. I love it! * Henry Eliot, Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists *Trivia book of the year … wonderfully entertaining and, if you set as many pub quizzes as I do, exceptionally useful * Marcus Berkmann, The Spectator *The coolest trivia book on the shelves * The Sunday Times *

Rob Orchard, Christian Tate and Marcus Webb are the co-founders of The Slow Journalism Company, publishers of Delayed Gratification, the world’s first magazine dedicated to Slow Journalism. Launched in 2011 as an antidote to a kneejerk news cycle that prioritises speed over depth, detail and context, it has gone on to attract media praise and subscribers from around the globe. Each issue returns to the events of the quarter after the dust has settled to tell the stories the rest of the media has missed – or mistold. Leading an award-winning team of international journalists, editors Rob and Marcus conduct on-the-groundreporting, interview experts and crunch through vast data sets to capture illuminating truths on subjects as varied as the prospects of cold fusion and the politics of the Eurovision song contest.