Christmas Begins With a ‘G’ …

Christmas begins with a ‘G’ this year as the QI boffins and their gang of familiar faces unleash not only a brand new series on BBC1, beginning Thursday 26th November, but also two new books: The QI Annual 2010 and The Book of the Dead.

Laugh Yourself Clever

Edited by John Lloyd, the new QI Annual is, in their very own words, ‘a gargantuan gallimaufry of G-ness that gambols gamely between Galaxies, Gods, Gravity, Gin, Gnus and Gravel’ …

The book features all sorts of favourites from the new series, including Clive Anderson on Gordons; Rowan Atkinson as The Gambler; Bill Bailey’s Air Guitar Tutorial; Craig Brown’s G-acronyms; Goatherd Sean Lock; Chris Donald of Viz on Geordies, Grocers and Garden Gnomes; and Graham Norton on Golden Grahams.

And of course it looks great with great illustrations from (among others) Geoff Dunbar, Beano’s Hunt Emerson, Gray Jolliffe, Phill Jupitus, Spitting Image’s Roger Law, Matt from The Daily Telegraph, Tony Husband and Nick Newman of Private Eye, Katie Scott, Adrian Teal, Robert Thompson … [...]