Noel Botham: 17 books
The Mammoth Book of Useless Information
An Officially Useless Information Society Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Did you know the Sumerians were the first to brew beer, and all the brewers were women? Or that the zip in zip code stands for zoning improvement plan? Did you know that your big toes have two bones each, while all the rest have three? Or that the first fruit eaten on the moon was a peach? The Useless...
The Book of Royal Useless Information
A Funny and Irreverent Look at The British Royal Family Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Continuing the sensational success of the Useless Information Series, the Official Useless Information Society brings you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. A celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee this amazing volume contains all things royal...
by Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2002
Princess Margaret was not like the other royals. A free spirit, she broke away from the conventions that others imposed upon her and lived a life that has seemed to some scandalous, to others liberating.It was Margaret who had an illicit love affair with jazz musician Robin Douglas-Home and letters...
by Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book...
Did...
by Michael Seed, Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Michael Seed 's childhood was nothing but a daily ordeal of unspeakable neglect, misery, and abuse from a father whose tyranny of fear stole Michael's formative years from him and drove Michael's mother to suicide. After years of silence, he now feels ready to tell a story that, though shockingly...
Best Book of Useless Information Ever
An Official Useless Information Society Publication
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Were you aware, for example, that cigarettes contain honey? Or that a ferret will die if it cannot find a mate? Would you like to know what Madonna did before she was famous, or how many toothpick accidents there are every year. If you are a lover of the wonderfully pointless, then this is the book for you.
Catch That Tiger
Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With exclusive access to private diaries and dozens of photographs, this is the incredible story of one of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War II
Unleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time—the 60-ton...
by Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Did you know that the Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving? Or that Maine is the toothpick capital of the world, or that frogs have teeth?
Do you want to know what a cockroach’s favorite food is, or how long it would take to drive to the sun?
Amaze your friends and family...
by Noel Botham, The Useless Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Perfect for trivia lovers, an astounding collection of amazing, mind-boggling, and utterly inconsequential findings
Did you know that fingernails are made from the same substance as a bird’s beak? That cigarettes contain honey? Or that a ferret will die if it cannot find a mate?...
by Michael Seed, Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
‘IF YOU READ ANY BOOK THIS YEAR, READ THIS ONE – MARTINA COLE
‘A LIFE STORY FAR MORE INCREDIBLE THAN ANY BESTSELLER’ - JEFFREY ARCHER
‘Sometimes today I still cry for the lonely, frightened little boy I was then – so unhappy and so longing for love – and marvel at not only...
The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information
If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information-a collection of even greater insignificance.
More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to know....
The Ultimate Book of Useless Information
A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know (But Probably Don't)
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Bigger, better, and more useless than ever!
In their groundbreakingly useless book, The Book of Useless Information, the members of the Useless Information Society proved that knowledge doesn't have to be useful to be entertaining. Now they present a new collection of their most fascinating,...
The Amazing Book of Useless Information
More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information comes another fun, foolhardy and completely frivolous, fact-filled book.
The Useless Information Society's latest collection, The Amazing Book of Useless Information, will answer questions readers never even...
by Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information comes another enlightening, entertaining, and ultimately useless assortment of trivia.
If you find yourself transfixed by the most trivial of trivia, or mesmerized by the most minor of minutiae, The Useless...
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