The Other Book - Tapa dura

Did you know that: Adolph Hitler's autograph is worth approximately GBP 6,000; Charles Kennedy is allergic to grass; and Yuma, Arizona gets 4,300 hours of sunshine per year? If you didn't know that 72% of Americans sign their pets' names on greeting cards or that every year four people in the UK die putting on their trousers, then you need to read "The Other Book". Packed with trivia and more celebrity facts than ever, you won't be able to stop reading.

Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning weekly column for the Sunday Express.