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James Harkin,Anna Ptaszynski

Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sports

Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sports

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Everything to Play For is a fascinating grand tour of the world of sports, filled with surprising facts and intriguing stories. It is written by James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski, the QI Elves, and published in paperback as A Load of Old Balls.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 12 October 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber


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. SPECTATOR Hop, skip, and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski. From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, via comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests, creative football chants, and exploding billiard balls, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories. Even if you've never asked yourself what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared the outbreak of bicycle face, or what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed, this book will give you the astonishing answers - and plenty more besides. Published in paperback as A Load of Old Balls. For more from the team behind QI's hit TV show, check out the QI FACTS series of books, @qikipedia, their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com, or visit qi.com.{URL}>

Weight: 546g
Dimension: 164 x 212 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571372539
Edition number: Main

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