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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

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

For ‘Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program’ (The Reluctant Traveler). Decision time 7 September, Peacock Theater, Los Angeles.

Choose your way through the story, plus some new games, out 23 November:

Be the Host and the Pointless Friend:

Series seven:

On bookshelves 22 September.

It’s your standard texaverienne interactive immersive experience experiment.

Due for release 27 December.

I was delighted to work on this review of this year.

Remembering Chifonie.

• See also: Gordius obituary; How to solve Cryptic Crosswords during Coronavirus

A long time in the making. There is something extraordinary in every episode.

• Apple TV from November 13

“Additional material”, written before the substantial Covid elements, for this, released on 23 October.

Proud to have taken part. BBC2, 9pm, 14 May.

Also known as Gordius.

For every Shipping Forecast area, you find the places on the map indicated by various clues. Join the places to form the shapes of letters. Join the letters to form a sea shanty.

Out 5 November from your local bookshop / Penguin / Waterstones / Amazon etc.

It also gives a flavour of what it’s like to be in each of Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…

• BBC Books / Ebury Publishing
• ISBN: 9781785945106
• 240 pages; 216 x 135 mm
• Goodreads · LibraryThing
• Previously: Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword; The Joy of Quiz

Not another one:

See also: Election Night Quiz; Election Lexicon

Series 58 begins 9pm, Fri 11 October.

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.

Series 57 begins 9pm, Fri 5 April.

Series 56 begins 9pm, Fri 5 October.