The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything cover art

The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything

by the Sunday Times #1 Bestselling Author

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything

By: Jonn Elledge
Narrated by: Jonn Elledge
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £14.35

Buy Now for £14.35

About this listen

 Bizarre, brilliant and filled with things you didn't know you didn't know - The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything evokes a sense of wonder at the scale of this planet, and the universe in which it sits.

The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream, inside you will find a discussion of how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world; details of humanity's most ridiculous wars; and, at last, the answer to who would win in a fight between Harry Potter and Spider-Man.

Bizarre, brilliant and filled with the unexpected, The Compendium covers the breadth and depth of human experience, weaving its way through words and numbers, science and the arts, the spiritual and the secular. It's a feast of facts for a hungry mind.

Includes entries on the cosmos, the human planet, questions of measurement, history/politics, the natural world, leisure and many 'oddities' that don't fit elsewhere...

(P) 2021 Headline Publishing Group Ltd©2021 Jonn Elledge Political Science Politics & Government War Africa Imperialism
All stars
Most relevant
Fun and unpretentious! Easy listen, and loads of cool facts, a nice break from more dense history books

Really entertaining

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A delightful combination of facts and details about almost any subject you could think of.

The book is excellently read by the author Jonn Elledge, who adds occasional comments, and is accompanied by a handy pdf of extra figures from the print version.

Highly recommended.

Packed with fascinating and unexpected facts

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.