Mitchell Symons
Price: £7.99
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 13/04/2017
ISBN: 9781782437666
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Language
Binding: Paperback
Size: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 192 pages
Illustration: Black-and-white illustrations
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
Edition Status: Out of Print
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Enquire nowThoroughly diverting... enough wordy wisdom to keep the Christmas television at bay and sufficient "did you knows" to entertain the visiting hordes
The Field
What fascinating fun... a sheer joy
Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
The Wonderful World of Words is filled with truly oddball facts about words and is a celebration of language that will have you hooked from the very first page
With information about words and their uses, useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film and much more
Mitchell Symons was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and is the author of over sixty books
From the publisher of Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas (over 97,000 copies sold)
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. He wrote an award-winning weekly column for the Daily Express and currently writes a weekly column for the Sunday Express. He has written over sixty books – including fifteen for children with more in various stages of preparation. He has won the Blue Peter Best Book With Facts Award for the past two years running. In naming Mitchell as the friend he would phone (as a Phone-A-Friend) if he were appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Chris Tarrant said: "Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on earth".
