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That's Bollocks

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  • Relay Publishing

  • Paru le : 08/03/2018
Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour.... > Lire la suite
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Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour.   More than just a collection of urban legends, this is also a detective story.   Exploring the real events behind conspiracy theories, the exaggerations of history and the assumptions of old wives' tales (and self-help books amongst many, many other things, Albert Jack shows us that the truth can definitely be stranger than fiction.  Albert Jack has become something of a publishing phenomenon, clocking up hundreds of thousands of sales with his series of bestselling adventures tracing the fantastic stories behind everyday phrases (Red Herrings and White Elephants), the world's great mysteries (Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs), pub names (The Old Dog and Duck) food history (What Caesar did for My Salad) and nursery rhymes (Pop Goes the Weasel). 

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  • Date de parution : 08/03/2018
  • Editeur : Relay Publishing
  • ISBN : 978-1-386-96003-4
  • EAN : 9781386960034
  • Format : ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Protection num. : Contenu protégé

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Biographie de Albert Jack

Albert Jack is a writer and historian. His first book Red Herrings and White Elephants explored the origins of well-known idioms and phrases and became an international best-seller in 2004. It was serialized in the Sunday Times and remained on their best-seller list for sixteen straight months. He followed this up with a series of other popular titles including Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad & They Laughed at Galileo.
Fascinated by discovering the truth behind the world's great stories, Albert has become an expert at explaining the unexplained, enriching millions of dinner table conversations and ending bar room quarrels the world over. He is now a veteran of hundreds of live television shows and thousands of radio programs worldwide. Albert lives somewhere between Guildford in England and Bangkok in Thailand. OTHER BOOKS BY ALBERT JACKRed Herrings and White ElephantsShaggy Dogs and Black SheepPhantom HitchhikersLoch Ness Monsters and Other World MysteriesPop Goes the WeaselThe Old Dog and DuckWhat Caesar Did for my SaladBlack Sheep and Lame DucksIt's a Wonderful WordMoney for Old Rope Part 1Money for Old Rope Part 2The Jam: Sounds From the StreetWant to be a Writer?New World Order: The Bilderberg Conspiracy and the Last Man in LondonRose Versus ThistleThey Laughed at GalileoThe Greatest Generation - Diary of a 1st & 6th Airborne Paratrooper9/11 ConspiracyDebt Freedom ProgramThe Slow Death of EuropeBlue Moons and Black Markets
That's Bollocks
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