Our Crazy World - an A-Z of the absurd, the unlikely and the downright daft.

Trivia hunting can be hard work. Author Jim Hewitson is pictured on the back cover slaving over a cold beer somewhere in the South of France, sparing no effort in his daily crusade to track down the odd and implausible. From a vast network of eccentric, eclectic and electronic contacts, from the bookshelves of dusty libraries to the pages of the international press, each dawn brings him a new crop of the world's downright daft tales.