Impossible to read in one sitting, but utterly unputdownable, Shott's Original Miscellany is a unique collection of fabulous trivia†.

What other book can boast an index that includes shoelace lengths, sign language, and seven deadly sins; duelling and dwarves; egg sizes and election results?

Where else can you find, packed onto one page, the names of golf strokes, a history of the Har Tax, cricketing dismissals, nouns of assemblage, betting-odds, slang, and the flag of Guadeloupe?

Where else, but Schott's Original Miscellany will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, the twelve labours of Hercules, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple?

A book like no other, Schott's Original Miscellany, is entertaining, unpredictable, and utterly addictive.

† TRIVIUM
noun [triv.i.um] - plural TRIVIA [triv.i.a]
from the Latin triv + via : three + ways
[1] The lower division of the seven liberal
arts taught in medieval schools, which
consisted of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric.
[2] zoological The three anterior ambulacra
of an echinoderm, or spiked sea-urchin.

 
This is an unbelievable book, and I love it! Love it, love it! It's incredible the breadth of knowledge and information contained in this deceptively tiny book. It's the sort of book you just randomly open, and are blown away with the variety of facts thrown at you. I can't wait to fully explore it, and attempt to absorb a small fraction of the trivia thrown at me.