I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School
Just for once, here is a book which is not about railways in any shape or form but will strike a chord with many adults. Everyone goes to school, everyone learns things and everybody, inevitably, forgets things. Caroline Taggart’s entertaining book is about those things which we all partly remember.
How are you on parts of speech, for example? Do you know the difference between a pronoun and a preposition? Then there’s maths, literature and history. Who fought the Hundred Years War? How much do you know about British Kings and Queens? The answers to all these half-remembered facts are lucidly and amusingly explained in this bluffer’s guide to everything. Michael O’Mara Books, 2008, 192 pages. Hardback.
Price £9.99