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WHAT BOOK would TV presenter Timmy Mallett take to a desert island? 

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WHAT BOOK would TV presenter Timmy Mallett take to a desert island? Timmy Mallett would take The Secret Footballer series to a desert island The TV presenter said Hillary Clinton’s political memoir left him cold He said Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee gave him the reading bug  By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 GMT, 12 March 2020 … Read more

Food for the brain! Fascinating book of ‘uncommon knowledge’

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MISCELLANY UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE   by Tom Standage (Economist £8.99, 272 pp)  This is what Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist, calls ‘a compendium of explanations’. It’s uncommon knowledge in two senses of the word: in the normal sense of ‘rare or infrequently encountered’, and also as in the meaning ‘exceptional and extraordinary’. In short, it’s … Read more