Product Description: This collection of amazingly pointless-yet fascinating-facts will answer questions readers never even knew they had.

Product Description: Father Michael Seed has been at the privileged center of events for a quarter of a century, and has played a uniquely influential role. In this explosive memoir Britain's "priest to the stars" covers his encounters with some of the most prominent political and public figures of a generation, and gives a rare and fascinating glimpse of behind-the-scenes events in the corridors of power...read more

Did you know that snails can sleep for three years without eating? Or that the average four-year-old asks over 400 questions a day? The Useless Information Society was formed by some of Britain's best-loved journalists, who meet regularly to swap new nuggets of trivia. This is the third collection of their incredible, fascinating, and utterly trivial findings. Each page is packed with off-the-wall, mind boggling facts guaranteed to amuse and delight in equal measure.

Product Description: 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? For anyone fascinated by the trifling, or just plain desperate to know the answers to the most bizarre of questions, this volume is packed with a bevy of utterly useless data drawn from every imaginable area of knowledge...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Collects whimsical trivia and features facts and statistics that cover such areas as sports, marriage customs, and historical records.

An entertaining collection of fascinating, pointless, and whimsical trivia features facts and statistics that cover such areas as show business and celebrities, sports, food, religion, literature and art, science and nature, and other fields. Reprint.

Were you aware that relatively speaking, the skin of a pear is thicker than that of planet Earth? This book is useful for those who are dotty for data or sticklers for statistics.

Bobby Temple is young, he is charismatic, and a landslide election victory has made him the new British Prime Minister. Ivan Brekov, his ex-Cambridge roommate is a hard drinking, womanising mastermind who has just led Russia's Communist Party to a stunning triumph in Russia.

Since Princess Diana's untimely death, the public has become increasingly aware that there may have been more to the car crash than the establishment would like us to believe.

Argues that the death of Princess Diana was not accidental, examining events and circumstances surrounding the car accident and the subsequent investigation. Reissue.

A fast-paced, earthy, dramatic, funny and occasionally disturbing account of Peter Ratcliffe's 25-year career in the SAS.

This work reveals the extraordinary and tragic story of the passionate, adulterous affair between the Queen's sister and jazz musician Robin Douglas-Home. When finally rejected, Douglas-Home was devastated. One year later he killed himself.