'It is tremendously good fun winding up the Scots. It is terribly easy, particularly Scottish politicians. They can take things far too seriously.' Jeremy Paxman* It's 700 years since England fought Scotland...

'Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Was Sir Winston Churchill really a Druid? Did Charlie Chaplin lose a lookalike competition? Did The Who's drummer Keith Moon drive his Rolls Royce into a...

Albert Jack's Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep is a compulsively readable, highly enlightening look at the phrases we use all the time but rarely consider.   The English language is crammed with colourful...

The fun and fascinating follow-up to the international bestseller Red Herrings and White Elephants   Why do people put their "skeletons in a closet," "have a hunch," "get the cold shoulder," "get dressed...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries:  The Famous Aurora...

From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo and many more... 'If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice...

Curiosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each...

Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour.   More than just a collection of urban legends,...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo & Mysterious...

Albert Jack is a internationally bestselling author who has been successfully tackling some of the great World Mysteries for over twenty years.  Using Occam's Razor he manages to shave away the theories,...

Over the years I have often been asked, by unpublished writers, how they should go about finding a publisher. I am also often asked the question, 'what should I write about.' And, whilst that is irritating;...

Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerized patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at...

How to Get Out of Debt is an important book covering all of the information you need to rid yourself of worrying debt, either business or personal, in only an hour and a half's read.  There are no long...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling English Language Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants and Shaggy Dogs & Black SheepHow To Speak English Like a Native The English language...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo: Money for Old Rope...

From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad, They Laughed at Galileo and many more.... Introduction Curiosity will...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo & Mysterious World:We...

From the bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel and What Caesar did for My Salad.A humorous account of great inventors and their critics who predicted failure.  They...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo:  We all love a good...

The Prophecy of Our Lady of Fatima (and the mad Catholics) On 13 July 1917, three children were startled to find a mysterious figure approaching them as they tended their flock of sheep in pastureland...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo: Inspiring Stories...

FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?  WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!  What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B....

From the international bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel & They Laughed at Galileo. Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners...

From the author of the internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo & 9/11 Conspiracy Originally...

From the internationally best selling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, New World Order and many more;The events of 9/11 2001 must not be forgotten because the consequences...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo: Money for Old Rope is essentially...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo: Have you ever wondered...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo: Many times, during every...

From the international bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants--a curious guide to the hidden histories of classic nursery rhymes. Who was Mary Quite Contrary, or Georgie Porgie? How could...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo:The historical significance...