University of Cambridge: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question: 213 Weird Questions, Expertly Answered! by Mike Rampton #literature

University of Cambridge: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question: 213 Weird Questions, Expertly Answered! by Mike Rampton #literatureA brilliantly silly question and answer book, fact checked by world leading experts from across the University of Cambridge. Did you know that there's no set number of bones in the human body? Most babies are born with around 300 bones, but by the time they've grown up, they usually have between 206 and 213. Covering a range of subjects from science, technology, engineering and mathematics to evolution, zoology, social history and more, this hilarious

revealing the ways in which this struggle mirrored and reflected a much larger societal issue: that no amount of money seems to be enough for even the wealthiest people

It makes a welcome addition to any stitchers reference library

'One of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century'The New York Times Book Review

but also laugh-out-loud funny

penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'

Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

respect and sheer ease

a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be

to explore our national identity and how it has evolved over the last century

gripping and moving novel about the lengths we will go to for the people who mean the most to us

ancient Greek gods and enduring friendship - from the global bestseller Rick Riordan

yet utterly timeless