{"product_id":"9781398532397","title":"The Most Interesting Book in the World","description":"\u003cp\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.�\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732279050616,"sku":"9781398532397","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781398532397.jpg?v=1794280862","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781398532397","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}