The Book Of The Year will be precisely what its title promises: an entertaining, fact-filled journey into the more bizarre reaches of the past twelve months. Among many, many other things, it will establish:

- Who has played the greater number of golf rounds since the turn of 2017: Rory McIlroy or Donald Trump.
- Precisely how many members of Britain's Parachute Regiment aren't actually qualified to use parachutes.
- Why a parliamentary inquiry into why parliamentary inquiries take so long has been delayed.

Venturing fearlessly from Australia (where toad-flavoured sausages are being deployed to stop predators from eating real toads) to India (where you can now buy a washing machine with a special curry stain button), this will be the year, not as the headlines defined it, but as it ought to be remembered.

The Book Of The Year will prove the perfect Christmas gift, the ideal conversation starter (and stopper), and the ultimate source of wisdom for all lovers of trivia.

First published: Thursday 2nd November 2017

Random House Audiobooks presents 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 Fish. Each week over a million people tune in to find out what bizarre and astonishing facts Dan, James, Anna and Andy have found out over the previous seven days. Now the gang have turned their attention to the news of the past 12 months.

You'll discover the curious details behind the main headlines - how Donald Trump slept on the 66th floor of a 58-storey building, what effect Brexit had on Coco Pops, and why China's president can't stand Winnie the Pooh - as well as hundreds of stories you may have missed entirely, like the news that:

- Qatar built a refugee camp for camels
- 2,000 bees were stolen in Beeston
- The victim of Britain's first ever shark attack ended up with a cut thumb

From bizarre arrests to baffling elections, via a surprising amount of sausage news, The Audiobook Of The Year is an eye-opening tour of the incredible year you didn't know you'd lived through.

First published: Thursday 2nd November 2017

Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI, The Book Of The Year 2018 will bravely delve behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the last twelve months. Among many other things, it will establish that:

• Britain's first robot shop assistant was sacked after a week.
• Donald Trump claimed the US sells F52 planes to Norway, even though F52 planes only exist in the game Call of Duty.
• During the Winter Olympics, it was so windy during the Women's Slopestyle Final that every single competitor was blown off her snowboard.
• A snail racing competition in Plymouth was postponed because the snails were too 'sluggish' to take part.

Ranging from the distinctly offbeat to the wonderfully ludicrous - from the South Africans who were rationed to just one toilet flush per day, to the Nutella riots spreading across France, via the Miami Bitcoin conference that stopped accepting Bitcoin - The Book Of The Year promises a fact for every occasion and will prove the perfect Christmas gift for all trivia buffs.

First published: Thursday 18th October 2018