Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Caroline Taggart has worked in publishing for nearly 30 years, the last 18 of them as a freelance editor of non-fiction. She has edited innumerable natural history titles, notably Jonathan Scott's Big Cat Diary books and the tie-in to the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs, as well as books on gardening, cookery, health, witchcraft, pop music, the Blitz, the D-Day landings, the House of Commons and the English language. She has also written a handbook for mature students and an encyclopaedia of dogs. The first book Caroline wrote was I Used To Know That, a Sunday Times bestseller published in 2008. This was followed by My Grammar and I (also a Sunday Times bestseller), Answers to Rhetorical Questions, A Classical Education, An Apple A Day and Pushing the Envelope. Her books have appeared in the Sunday Times, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Sun and many other publications, and her frequent television and radio appearances include BBC1 Breakfast, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live.Amusing but useful... I am not the only one planning to keep it on my desk to avoid any intellectually embarrassing moments
The Scotsman
a droll personal audit of how much - or how little - of school learning lingers on into later life... it is not only fun to dip into, it is a mine of useful information... It's all there, easily found, clearly laid out
The Oldie
This is a fascinating book... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table
She
A fun and witty collection of snippets of information we 'used to know' from school
Essentials
This is an absorbing volume of familiar facts and figures you may well have forgotten... If the answers are just out of reach, but you know them really, this is the book for you
Sainsbury's Magazine
It is a fascinating read and you might even learn a few things you missed out on first time around
Townswoman Magazine
It covers everything we should remember from school but don't
The Western Mail
could help you connect with your childhood, boost your brainpower and remind your kids just how clever you are
Irish News
[an] entertaining rag-bag of a book, a sort of cocktail of half-remembered things from your schooldays
Birmingham Evening Mail
'This is a fascinating book ... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table' – She Magazine
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A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days.
I Used to Know That is an ideal and accessible reference guide for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge – or prepare for a pub quiz!
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That is guaranteed to provide all the answers.
Can you remember how photosynthesis works?
What about quadratic equations?
Or the names of all five Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice?
This witty and insightful book gathers together all the facts, figures and formulae we only half-remember from school, and is guaranteed to have you exclaiming, ‘I used to know that!’
‘A seven-chapter wonder that covers everything’ - The Scotsman
‘Jolly useful old-school primer . . . Everyone will want to dip into this’ - Tribune magazine