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Fascinating and hugely entertaining Daily Express

Fascinating and hugely entertaining * Daily Express * 'Each mystery is delightfully penned in bite-sized chunks that often includes humorous repertoire... highly enjoyable... Captivating and inspiring' * New Scientist * 'Properly researched, and the elegance of its pop-cosmology or pop-biology mini-narratives rivals that of many specialists. It is slyly witty, and pleasingly optimistic.' -- Steven Poole * Guardian * 'Discovering the many undiscovered things that one thought had been discovered already is one of the joys of this book... You might have thought that wallowing in ignorance is a tedious and fruitless occupation. As Hartston proves entertainingly, how wrong you would be.' * Daily Express * With humor and an inquiring mind, [Hartson] examines perennially confounding quandaries, and his investigations will surely pique the curiosity of kids and scholars alike. -- on The Things that Nobody Knows * Publishers Weekly *

Properly researched, and the elegance of its pop-cosmology or pop-biology mini-narratives rivals that of many specialists. It is slyly witty, and pleasingly optimistic. Steven Poole, Guardian on The Things That Nobody Knows

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William Hartston is a Cambridge-educated mathematician and industrial psychologist. Between 1962 and 1987 he played chess competitively, becoming an international master and winning the English chess championship in 1973 and 1975. He runs competitions in creative thinking for the Independent newspaper and the Mind Sports Olympiad, writes the off-beat Beachcomber column for the Daily Express and is the author of a number of books on chess, mathematics, humour and trivia. Hartston is also one of the viewers on Channel 4's Gogglebox.

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