alanconnor.com/log

PREORDER: Local bookshop | Amazon | Waterstones | more

Travel around these islands enjoying our many kinds of rain and the words we use for them.

‘Alan knows everything, knows everyone, and writes beautifully too.’ – Richard Osman

‘I’ve always been in awe of Alan Connor: the man with the contents of the Oxford English
Dictionary stored just above his left eyebrow … and he’s quite funny too.’ – Rory Cellan-Jones

‘A gorgeous, funny tour of the British Isles as seen from the clouds.’ – Konnie Huq

Goodreads | Librarything
BBC Books, 14 Nov 2024
ISBN: 9781785948541, 320 pages, £16.99

All-new material and mostly-fake glimpses behind the scenes:

I am proud of this book, which comes out on 17 October.

It has some games from the TV show, and some new ones and, with a couple of exceptions, all new questions. There are some imaginary behind-the-scenes conversations and general nonsense.

• Previously: Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword; The Joy of Quiz
• £14.99 RRP hardback
• 17 October 2019 hardback
• BBC Books
• ISBN: 1785944622 and 978-1785944628

Blurb:

Do you know how many post boxes there are in the UK? Could you guess how many times the word ‘goat’ appeara in the King James Version of the bible? Fancy playing a game of charades where all of the books, films and plays are entirely made up? Now, look around the room. Is anyone there the kind of person who’ll say ‘I just don’t understand this’, when faced with something that’s not just perfectly easy to understand, but is … well, fun? Ask them to leave. Have they gone? Good. Now welcome inside the House of Games.