Chloe Rhodes
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

Read by Phyllida Nash
If you’ve ever wanted to add a little savoir faire to your badinage, or chutzpah to your spiel, then fear not, help is at hand. A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi is an entertaining jaunt through the legions of words, from aficionado to zeitgeist, that we English-speakers have pilfered from across the globe. It includes fascinating derivations and witty examples, as well as all the stories of just how and why we absorbed such exotic imports.

An accessible and entertaining treasury of information that connoisseurs of the English language will love.

Julian Baggini
Do They Think You’re Stupid?
100 Ways of Spotting Spin and Nonsense
from the Media, Celebrities and Politicians

Read by Rupert Holliday-Evans
Don't know a post-hoc fallacy when you hear one? This companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten (CCD 2141) provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry takes as its starting point an example of questionable reasoning from the media or literature.

John Farndon
Do You Think You’re Clever?

Read by Mark Meadows
Why can't you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is nature natural? Every year the learned professors of Oxford and Cambridge pose such conundrums to potential students to separate the wheat from the chaff. Deftly exploring the twisting paths the mind can take when it's really made to think, Do You Think You're Clever? provides dazzling answers to more than sixty perplexing problems.

'Test your knowledge and see where you rank in relation to the nation's elite with this light-hearted and informative quiz book. Featuring actual questions taken from undergraduate admissions interviews' – Woman and Home

Caroline Taggart
An Apple a Day

Read by Kim Hicks
Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, pithy sayings that are used in everyday English without much thought being given to their meanings. Here Caroline Taggart explores the truth behind favourite proverbs and their history. 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' is a proverb from falconry that dates back to the middle ages and many proverbs are still in use today, including the famous 'slow and steady wins the race', which derives from one of the fables of Aesop, a slave in ancient Greece born in 620BC. Lighthearted but authoritative, An Apple A Day proves that proverbs are as useful today as they ever were.