Albert Jack: 79 books

**Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerized patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados?  **   Here Albert Jack...

**Albert Jack's Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep is a compulsively readable, highly enlightening look at the phrases we use all the time but rarely consider.  **   The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day.     It's only when we're asked...

**Albert Jack is a internationally bestselling author who has been successfully tackling some of the great World Mysteries for over twenty years. ** Using Occam's Razor he manages to shave away the theories, the improbable and the hysteria, hype and sensational to reveal only the known, probable...

'Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents -- doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem...' – Lewis Black, on Donald...

Over the years I have often been asked, by unpublished writers, how they should go about finding a publisher. I am also often asked the question, ‘what should I write about.’ And, whilst that is irritating; the chief reason being, ‘That’s your job,’ it is still a good question. (The main...

FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED? WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE! What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. Cooper really get away with it? Is Bigfoot a big fake? Are ETs just BS? If you’re tired of...

Introduction The subject of urban myths and legends is one I have been interested in for a couple of years now. It occurred to me, one day at lunch with friends on the Isle of Dogs, that many long rambling conversations (and ours are certainly long and always rambling) will include a tall tale...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo: Inspiring Stories for Children is an experimental book of around a dozen original stories and poems, all for...

From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries, Urban Myths & Legends and many more... Introduction The subject of urban myths and legends is one I have been interested in for a couple of years now. It occurred to me,...

That’s a Terrible Idea for a Book The truth is that almost every successful book you have ever read has been repeatedly rejected by publishers who may look back on a missed opportunity. Unless, of course, it was written by an established author with a ready made audience. So that means there...

An Englishman lives in Cape Town for ten-years and then, by accident, packs up and moves to Vietnam, having never even been there on holiday. **What could possibly go wrong? ** Extract - When I decided to escape the Hanoi heat for a few days I looked for flights to Sapa, a village in...

From the international bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants—a curious guide to the hidden histories of classic nursery rhymes. Who was Mary Quite Contrary, or Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle offer an essential astronomy lesson? Do Jack and Jill actually represent...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo: The pub was once described by seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys as the ‘heart of England while the church...

An Englishman lives in Cape Town for ten-years and then, by accident, packs up and moves to Vietnam, having never even been there on holiday. What could possibly go wrong? Extract - When I decided to escape the Hanoi heat for a few days I looked for flights to Sapa, a village in the...