{"product_id":"the-book-of-the-year-2019-hardcover","title":"The Book of the Year 2019 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNo Such Thing as a Fish\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'My favourite geeks. Hilarious. Sideways. Brilliant.' Tim Minchin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a year when South Korea announced that its new robotics museum will be built by robots, and French cheese terrorists put a camembert through every French MP's letterbox, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Year \u003c\/i\u003ereturns with another dose of barely believable yet bona fide facts and stories from the past twelve months.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach week for the past five years, Dan, James, Anna and Andy - the creators of the award-winning, chart-topping comedy podcast \u003ci\u003eNo Such Thing as a Fish\u003c\/i\u003e - have wowed each other and millions of listeners with the most astonishing trivia they have learned over the previous seven days. Now, once again, they have scoured the newspapers for hidden gems, and transformed another year's worth of weird and wonderful happenings into one uplifting book that you won't be able to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover \u003c\/b\u003ehow TV channel Hallmark has so many new Christmas movies that it will now start airing them from July.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBe amused to learn \u003c\/b\u003ethat a thousand people were hired to attend a rally in Kiev to protest against the practice of hiring people to attend rallies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShare \u003c\/b\u003ethe excitement of the scientists who discovered that more attractive monkeys have smaller testicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevel in the news \u003c\/b\u003ethat Carlsberg launched a new advertising campaign admitting it is 'probably not the best beer in the world'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeel a little sympathy \u003c\/b\u003efor Ariana Grande, who got a Japanese tattoo she intended to say 'Seven Rings' but that actually ended up reading 'small charcoal grill'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom ecologically minded Birmingham drug dealers to dodgy Belgian petanque players, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Year 2019\u003c\/i\u003e is an eye-opening tour of yet another incredible year you didn't know you'd lived through. And the authors have promised not to mention Brexit. Much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Such Thing as a Fish\u003c\/i\u003e is a team of researchers who work on the BBC TV show \u003ci\u003eQI\u003c\/i\u003e. Each week they gather together in their Covent Garden office and record a podcast discussing the most interesting facts they've discovered over the previous seven days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the five years since it launched, the show has been downloaded more than 200 million times, won multiple awards, been transformed into the spin-off topical BBC Two TV series \u003ci\u003eNo Such Thing as the News\u003c\/i\u003e, performed national and international tours (including selling out the Hammersmith Apollo and the Sydney Opera House along the way), and was named one of iTunes' top 10 most downloaded podcasts of 2016, 2017 and 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe team is made up of James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames is a script editor on \u003ci\u003eQI\u003c\/i\u003e, with a dozen series and seven bestselling books under his belt. He has also appeared on TV quiz shows \u003ci\u003eFifteen to One\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOnly Connect\u003c\/i\u003e, reaching the semi-finals in the latter and embarrassingly crashing out of the former.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew is a writer and comedian who also contributes to \u003ci\u003ePrivate Eye\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Last \u003c\/i\u003eDay, will be published in spring 2020. His nickname among \u003ci\u003eNo Such Thing as a Fish \u003c\/i\u003efans is 'Lightning' (or so he claims). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna is a script editor on \u003ci\u003eQI \u003c\/i\u003ewho has previously worked in Scottish politics and Australian advertising, as well as selling fruit wine and hay-baling in the Highlands. She refuses to join Twitter. #GetAnnaOnTwitter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan is a comedian and producer who co-created the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series \u003ci\u003eThe Museum of \u003c\/i\u003eCurioisty; has fronted numerous TV shows, including his own Channel 4 documentary; and, as a stand-up, saw his debut show named at the time as one of the top 100 most favourably reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe. He ranked 100th.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.8 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47503118598365,"sku":"9781786332011","price":29.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/o9ebCm2tTh9781786332011.webp?v=1772063302","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-book-of-the-year-2019-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}