All the Knowledge in the World : The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE by Simon Garfield

All the Knowledge in the World : The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE by Simon GarfieldThe encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped millions of children with their homework. But now these huge books gather dust and sell for

It's a journey that spans from ancient Thebes in 1336 BCE

each designed to take a week to master

in many ways the birth of modern gaming

brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister – and a new assignment

Through this brave and revealing memoir

Kat's instincts come up against Lock's logic

It is packed with poems about everything that lives in the the sea and rivers

and how humans and horses have worked together for millennia

It's been a wild ride and hopefully my fans enjoy it too

Cathy has barely been back since Eloise's death a decade ago

An atmospheric island bursting with history

from its remote beginnings down to the present