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Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2011

By Ripley, Robert Leroy

Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2012

By Ripley, Robert Leroy

The Science Magpie: A hoard of fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes, plucked from science and its history

By Flynn, Simon

The Science Magpie: Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science

By Flynn, Simon

Mckie's Gazetteer: A Local History of Britain

By McKie, David

Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher?: A Bird's Eye History of the World

By Turner, David

The British Isles: A Trivia Gazetteer

By Jones, Paul Anthony

Really Useful: The Origins of Everyday Things

By Joel Levy

Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?: And Other Everyday Mysteries of Science

By Robert Matthews

The Best of Times: Growing up in Britain in the 1950's

By Pressley, Alison

Everything You Didn't Need to Know About the USA (Everything You Didn't Need to Know Series)

By Farrington, Karen

Everything You Didn't Need to Know About Australia (Everything You Didn't Need to Know Series)

By Ward, Adam

How Long Is a Piece of String?

By Eastaway, Rob, Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham

Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, & Where Did it Go?

By Michael Bywater, Bywater, Michael

Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost And Where Did It Go?

By Michael Bywater, Bywater, Michael

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Expect The Unexpected (Ripley's Believe It or Not (Hardback))

By Ripley's Believe It or Not, Ripley's Believe It or Not

Ripley's Believe it or Not! Curioddities - Seriously Weird!

By Marshall, Anne

What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? and Other Great Cultural Lists--Fully Described

By D'Epiro, Peter, Pinkowish, Mary Desmond

Guinness World Records 2007: With Cards

By Guinness Books

Guinness World Records 2008 (Guinness)

By Guinness World Records 2008

Constable Colgan's Connectoscope: How One Thing Leads to Another

By Stevyn Colgan

Rugby's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of rugby

By Griffiths, John

Law's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but True Tales from Over Five Centuries of Legal History

By Peter Seddon

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary True Stories: A Very Curious History: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county

By Martin Latham, Latham, Martin

Guinness World Records 2020

By Guinness World Records

The Pedant's Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong

By Barham, Andrea

Extreme Encounters: How it Feels to be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences

By Emmanuel, Greg

Guinness World Records 2017

By Guinness World Records

Chambers London Gazetteer

By Willey, Russ