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Hunting Season
James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War
2015
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Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages.On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled "Message to America," t...
A Load of Old Balls
The QI History of Sport
2024
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'** Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES'The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.' SPECTATORDid you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls?A Load of Old Balls is the curious s...
Lost in Cyburbia
How Life on the Net Has Created a Life of Its Own
2010
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The early twentieth century saw the slow but steady exodus of the population from inner cities to the suburbs. We are currently witnessing a similar transformation as our new century establishes itself, but in an entirely different realm. As new technologies proliferate — personal computers, the communication gadgetry of mobile devices and access to the internet — our culture is participating in a mass electronic migration. James Harkin christens this destination to “Cyburbia” — the ether ...
Unabridged
6 hours 2 min
2022
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EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW* The perfect gift for the incurably curious *This edition includes all new, even more ingenious questions and answers! It was previously published in hardback as Funny You Should Ask . . . Again.'The best trivia book of the season.' THE SPE...
2018
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris EvansA bumper final edition of the most surprising, amazing, and hilarious facts on the planet from the clever-clogs at QI.QI is the smartest comedy show on British television. Here creator John Lloyd and QI Elves James Harkin and Anne Miller bring together 2,024 brain-tickling brand new fact...
A Load of Old Balls
The QI History of Sport
- Narrated by
- James HarkinAnna Ptaszynski
Unabridged
8 hours 40 min
2023
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Previously published as EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR: THE QI BOOK OF SPORTSSHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS' Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES'The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.' SPECTATORHop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports,...
2014
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'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans1,411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin, contains all-new facts from the QI team to astonish, delight and enlighten.1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. Prepare to be knocked sideways...
Funny You Should Ask . . .
Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves
Unabridged
4 hours 42 min
2020
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EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOWThe perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE BALLPre-order the next book in this series, 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions, published in paperback on 3rd November.'QI have outdone th...
2013
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EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin is packed with even more fascinating facts.Whilst you're bending over to grab your ...
2015
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The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all.Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate frogs' legs? Which cat never changes its spots? What did Lady Godiva do? What can you legally do if you come across a Welshman in Chester...
Unabridged
9 hours 25 min
2017
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Random House Audiobooks present The Audiobook of the Year, written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish: James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber.In a year when much of the news was believable but fake, comes an audiobook packed with stories that are unbelievable but true.The Audiobook of the Year is a feature-length edition of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing As A F...
Unabridged
11 hours 2 min
2019
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Brought to you by Penguin.The Audiobook of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious and absolutely absurd news of 2019.Featuring an audio-exclusive bonus chapter and live recordings for the Book of the Year 2019 tour.Once again the fact-finding foursome behind the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish have been newspaper-trawling and website-crawling to create your ulti...