QI: The Book of the Dead

Author(s): John Lloyd

Gifts & Humour

In "The Book of the Dead" you will meet hundreds of Dead People, some well-known, others completely obscure, organised into 42 short chapters that play merry hell with the usual classifications. So, instead of Royalty, Scientists and Sportsmen, you'll find rather more diverting categories like People who died Penniless, The One-Legged, Only Children, People who failed at School, Those only Remembered by a Single Quotation and the Last People to Know Everything. Why did a church composer invent the hand grenade? What was Leonardo's proudest achievement? If "The Book of the Dead" doesn't persuade you to immediately join the massed ranks of those looking at the radishes from below, it will certainly make the tricky business of Living a tad less grim and a lot more interesting.


Product Information

The quirkiest biographical dictionary you'll ever read from the bestselling QI team, full of hilarious facts and details about the most interesting people who ever lived.

John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. If pressed, he'd concur with Heraclitus: 'abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.'

General Fields

  • : 9780571275144
  • : Faber and Faber
  • : Faber and Faber
  • : 0.36
  • : August 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 28mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Lloyd
  • : Paperback
  • : Export - International ed
  • : 448