The Pedants Return

Hot on the heels of the 2005 hit The Pedant's Revolt (which has sold over 35,000 copies in the UK and reached no. 6 in the amazon charts) comes The Pedant's Return, the latest in Andrea Barham's popular pedantry series. Aimed at everyone from pedants to know-it-alls, as well as those simply wishing to 'get it right', the book will appeal to the modern passion for factual accuracy. How many times have you encountered an extraordinary 'fact' in your everyday life that's led you to think, 'That can't possibly be true!'? Or you've heard something highly improbable and completely dismissed the chances of it being in the least bit authentic? In The Pedant's Return a great many doubts will be dispelled, as a range of surprising statements that sound as though they couldn't possibly be genuine, are, through careful and committed research, revealed to be 100 per cent correct.