Joined-up Thinking: How to Connect Everything to Everything Else | Hardback

Ever had the sneaking suspicion that everything is connected in some small, secret way? What is the link between the Sex Pistols and crude oil; between Pink Floyd, Isaac Newton and a suicidal dwarf on the set of "The Wizard of Oz"? "Joined-Up Thinking" is unlike other trivia books, brilliantly linking obscure but fascinating facts into circular chapters, each of which begins and ends with the same line. With a final flourish that gives you a shiver, the author then ties all 30 chapters together and takes you right back to the start...'I found myself fascinated and, like a child who thinks it's fun to go round and round in circles, somewhat dizzy. Most impressive.' - Stephen Fry. '[This is]… more » the book we all secretly want to write, the one that nails that odd, slightly unnerving feeling that everything really is connected...It will be in all the QI elves' stocking next Christmas, for sure.' - John Mitchinson, author of "Q.I.: The Book of General Ignorance". « less