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I Used to Know That
Stuff You Forgot From School
Caroline Taggart
Extent: 192 pages
Size: 198x129mm
Publication Date: 19/06/2008
About the Book
'This is a fascinating book… it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table' – She
A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days.
This great gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for anyone new to the series, and old fans alike. Nostalgic, informative and entertaining, it is an ideal and accessible buy for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge.
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That is guaranteed to provide all the answers.
Other titles in the series include:
(9781843176572) My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?)
(9781782434634) Divorced, Beheaded, Died..:
Extent: 192pages
Size: 198x129mm
Publication Date: 01/09/2011
About the Book
'This is a fascinating book… it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table' – She
A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days.
This great gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for anyone new to the series, and old fans alike. Nostalgic, informative and entertaining, it is an ideal and accessible buy for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge.
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That is guaranteed to provide all the answers.
Other titles in the series include:
(9781843176572) My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?)
(9781782434634) Divorced, Beheaded, Died..:
Publication Date: 15/12/2010
Price: £6.99
ISBN: 9781843176060
Categories: Reference
About the Book
'This is a fascinating book… it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table' – She
A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days.
This great gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for anyone new to the series, and old fans alike. Nostalgic, informative and entertaining, it is an ideal and accessible buy for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge.
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That is guaranteed to provide all the answers.
Other titles in the series include:
(9781843176572) My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?)
(9781782434634) Divorced, Beheaded, Died..:
About the Author
Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe.
Her website is carolinetaggart.co.uk and you can follow her on Twitter @citaggart.
Reviews
- 'Amusing but useful... I am not the only one planning to keep it on my desk to avoid any intellectually embarrassing moments', The Scotsman
- 'a droll personal audit of how much - or how little - of school learning lingers on into later life... it is not only fun to dip into, it is a mine of useful information... It's all there, easily found, clearly laid out', The Oldie
- 'This is a fascinating book... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table', She
- 'A fun and witty collection of snippets of information we 'used to know' from school', Essentials
- 'This is an absorbing volume of familiar facts and figures you may well have forgotten... If the answers are just out of reach, but you know them really, this is the book for you', Sainsbury's Magazine
- 'It is a fascinating read and you might even learn a few things you missed out on first time around', Townswoman Magazine
- 'It covers everything we should remember from school but don't', The Western Mail
- 'could help you connect with your childhood, boost your brainpower and remind your kids just how clever you are', Irish News
- '[an] entertaining rag-bag of a book, a sort of cocktail of half-remembered things from your schooldays', Birmingham Evening Mail