The Audiobook of the Year (2018)

De: No Such Thing as a Fish

Narrado por: Jane Hill, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber, James Harkin

Random House presents The Audiobook of the Year (2018), written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish: James Harkin, Jane Hill, Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski.

Think you know what happened in 2018? Think again.

Following hot on the heels of the success of The Audiobook of the Year (or, more precisely, 12 months later), The Audiobook of the Year (2018) bravely delves behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the past 12 months.

Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI, it will establish - among other things - that:

• Britain’s first robot shop assistant was sacked after a week
• Donald Trump claimed the US sells F52 planes to Norway, even though F52 planes exist only in the game Call of Duty
• During the Winter Olympics, it was so windy during the Women's Slopestyle Final that every single competitor was blown off her snowboard.
• A snail racing competition in Plymouth was postponed because the snails were too 'sluggish' to take part.

Ranging from the distinctly offbeat to the wonderfully ludicrous - from the South Africans who were rationed to just one toilet flush per day, to the Nutella riots spreading across France, via the Miami bitcoin conference that stopped accepting bitcoin - The Audiobook of the Year (2018) promises a fact for every occasion and will prove the perfect Christmas gift for all trivia buffs.

©2018 No Such Thing as a Fish (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks

Always entertaining.

The QI Elves present a book form of their wonderful podcast. Hours of fun listening!

Hysterical!

Just as hilarious as the podcast! A few too many politics jokes for me, but still lots of fun.

A-z hilarity

Hilarious things that happened in 2018. Despite covering things starting with all letters A to Z, I don’t think a single letter failed to mention trump— and it’s a British team in the year of brexit. Laugh because it’s better than accepting that the world is actually an SNL skit.

Fast Paced, Full of Whimsy

I don't know how I missed so many nonsensical news items throughout the year. I better expand my news resources.

brilliant

big fan of the podcast, the book is an excellent exclamation point on the year

A very QInteresting book

Did you know that in 2018....?
If not this is the book for you!
fantastic

Slightly sloppy production

Loved it! Great entertaining pun filled fun facts. However, there seemed to be some rough audio editing- inconsistencies between pauses, coughs etc left in, and takes where the team said phrases twice for a cleaner take were left in. This did by no means really detract from the overall experience, but if you’re an audio editor/engineer like me you might notice it

if you know what you're getting, you're getting it

this is an extended fish podcast, straight up. It differs in; having chapter titles, more "layout"than their regular episodes, and written word puns (which are always explained by the narrators). it's also more current event based (or recently current) than their normal episodes, speaking moistly of things from the year in the title, rather than doing historic dives like they do on the podcast. All of their charms and quirks are present and on full display, if you enjoy the podcast there's very little reason to think you won't enjoy this "audio book" *cough*long form podcast.

I've always wanted them to have a Patreon setup, and I feel this purchase will have supported them, without the bonus of ad free episodes (there are no ads in this audio book, but I really wouldn't mind paying to have ad free no such thing as a fish podcast)

Very funny, could have used more of an edit.

Very funny listening to the elves getting increasingly delirious and cranky as the alphabet progresses. highly entertaining.

This book is just what I was looking for comedy. I'm glad ive found. It. I'm hope to buy more of them

Dale Turchan [e-mail]
Please email. Me when there's more of them Thank you. For your help..