The Book Lover's Quiz Book, 9781472150080
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Test your literary knowledge! Fun, tricky, and full of surprises!
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The Book Lover's Quiz Book

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2025

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Summary

Lit Wit: The Ultimate Quiz Book for Bookworms

“I love a quiz, so the book I’m most hoping to find in my Christmas stocking is this ingenious book of literary questions, red herrings and conundrums. Much more than a straightforward question-and-answer book, it promises the kind of variety that will enliven evenings with family and friends. (And I might know some of the answers!)” VAL McDERMID

“Outside of a dog, The Book Lover’s Quiz Book is e…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472150080
ISBN-10:1472150082
Author:Gary Wigglesworth
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Robinson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:1 September 2025
Weight:248g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

The perfect gift for quizzers.

Consistently fun and often also very funny.

What a wonderful, joyous, fun book this is. For book lovers every answer jogs a warm memory, while every unknown signposts a future literary treat.This is the ultimate literary quiz book and Gary Wigglesworth is the quizmaster to end all quizmasters.Perfect for you if you love books and can’t be bothered to answer questions on anything else.My favourite quiz, now in book form!Gary’s quiz nights are genuinely legendary, and in the old times they were a place you could guarantee seeing at least one or two of the QI Elves - racking our brains. So I can’t recommend this book highly enough …Perfect for book-lovers, quiz-lovers and literary-fact-lovers. Witty and interesting; clever and challenging - while still having something for everyone (especially those brilliant Say What You See drawings). This book is great fun.

The Book Lover’s Quiz Book is my new go-to gift for readers, writers, culture vultures and word-nerds. Smart, witty, challenging, and endless fun. I can’t imagine a book quiz book done better.

Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm’s bookworm.A quiz book that manages that elusive balance between the hugely satisfying and the brain ticklingly challenging. A must have for book lovers.Quite literally The Book of All Books! A little piece of heaven for the competitive literature lover.Outside of a dog, The Book Lover’s Quiz Book is every bookworm’s best friend - inside of a dog … well, if you know the rest, you’re going to love this book.Whether in person in the pub or online on Twitter, Gary Wigglesworth’s book quizzes are never less than witty, addictive and informative. His ‘Say What You See’ drawings representing book titles - for example a gravestone bearing the symbol p - are a particular highlight. This volume collects together twenty-four quizzes, including a Christmas-themed one, for you to play at home, with friends and family or via Zoom. The perfect gift for the book lover in your life.As we inch towards the end of the year that saw many of us became ardent armchair quizzers, The Book Lover’s Quiz Book is the ideal Christmas present for the reader in your life, regardless of age, ability, or taste. So much love and thought has gone into making this book both challenging and accessible. Loved the touches of humour throughout.A book quiz quiz book what more could lovers of books, quizzes and quizzes about books desire? And marvellous it is too, Wigglesworth proving himself quite the literary Magnus Magnusson of our social media age.Think you know your literary trivia? Think again! A fun, and occasionally fiendish, collection of questions to test even the most ardent quizzer.It’s brilliant. Love the cartoon clues. Couldn’t stop playing. Well done.I love pub quizzes and this is a chance to recreate one of the best at home.Gary’s quizzes are perfectly pitched … this book will make an ideal Christmas present for readers who enjoy a good quiz.

About The Author

Gary Wigglesworth

Gary Wigglesworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and now lives in the south with his wife, Caroline. A bookseller for sixteen years, he now works in publishing. Currently his book quiz has a monthly residency at The Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon and provides the only monthly book quiz for London’s literature lovers.

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