The Book Lover’s Quiz Book
On sale
8th May 2025
Price: £10.99
‘I love a quiz, so the book I’m most hoping to find in my Christmas stocking is this ingenious book of literary questions, red herrings and conundrums. Much more than a straightforward question-and-answer book, it promises the kind of variety that will enliven evenings with family and friends. (And I might know some of the answers!)’
VAL McDERMID
‘Outside of a dog, The Book Lover’s Quiz Book is every bookworm’s best friend — inside of a dog . . . well, if you know the rest, you’re going to love this book’
PETER HANINGTON, author of A Dying Breed, peterhanington.co.uk
‘This is the ultimate literary quiz book and Gary Wigglesworth is the quizmaster to end all quizmasters’
DAVID QUANTICK davidquantick.com
This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover’s Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary’s live quizzes, at the Betsey Trotwood in London and elsewhere. So, there are lots of multiple-choice questions, some amusing answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts about authors and some of the much-loved Say What You See picture round.
Also, there are fixed and variable rounds – fixed ones include ‘Blankety Books’ (one word missing from the title – always with a theme), ‘Literary Links and lists’ (what connects/next in the list etc.) and ‘2 of a Kind’ (name the character and the author that share the same initials). The changeable rounds keep the quizzes fresh and include ‘What the Dickens?’ (real or made-up Dickens names), ‘RomeNo or JuliYess’ (real or made-up Shakespearian insults) and ‘Book Bingo!’ (identify the correct number). There are also more standard rounds such as ‘First Lines’, ‘Working Titles’ and ‘Banned Books’.
The aim of all Gary’s quizzes, and this book, is that people should have fun and be able to guess (if they don’t know) as much as possible.
VAL McDERMID
‘Outside of a dog, The Book Lover’s Quiz Book is every bookworm’s best friend — inside of a dog . . . well, if you know the rest, you’re going to love this book’
PETER HANINGTON, author of A Dying Breed, peterhanington.co.uk
‘This is the ultimate literary quiz book and Gary Wigglesworth is the quizmaster to end all quizmasters’
DAVID QUANTICK davidquantick.com
This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover’s Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary’s live quizzes, at the Betsey Trotwood in London and elsewhere. So, there are lots of multiple-choice questions, some amusing answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts about authors and some of the much-loved Say What You See picture round.
Also, there are fixed and variable rounds – fixed ones include ‘Blankety Books’ (one word missing from the title – always with a theme), ‘Literary Links and lists’ (what connects/next in the list etc.) and ‘2 of a Kind’ (name the character and the author that share the same initials). The changeable rounds keep the quizzes fresh and include ‘What the Dickens?’ (real or made-up Dickens names), ‘RomeNo or JuliYess’ (real or made-up Shakespearian insults) and ‘Book Bingo!’ (identify the correct number). There are also more standard rounds such as ‘First Lines’, ‘Working Titles’ and ‘Banned Books’.
The aim of all Gary’s quizzes, and this book, is that people should have fun and be able to guess (if they don’t know) as much as possible.
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Reviews
Consistently fun and often also very funny.
The Book Lover's Quiz Book is my new go-to gift for readers, writers, culture vultures and word-nerds. Smart, witty, challenging, and endless fun. I can't imagine a book quiz book done better.
The perfect gift for quizzers.
Quite literally The Book of All Books! A little piece of heaven for the competitive literature lover.
A book quiz quiz book what more could lovers of books, quizzes and quizzes about books desire? And marvellous it is too, Wigglesworth proving himself quite the literary Magnus Magnusson of our social media age.
It's brilliant. Love the cartoon clues. Couldn't stop playing. Well done.
I love pub quizzes and this is a chance to recreate one of the best at home.
What a wonderful, joyous, fun book this is. For book lovers every answer jogs a warm memory, while every unknown signposts a future literary treat.
Gary's quizzes are perfectly pitched . . . this book will make an ideal Christmas present for readers who enjoy a good quiz.
Outside of a dog, The Book Lover's Quiz Book is every bookworm's best friend - inside of a dog . . . well, if you know the rest, you're going to love this book.
Perfect for you if you love books and can't be bothered to answer questions on anything else.
Whether in person in the pub or online on Twitter, Gary Wigglesworth's book quizzes are never less than witty, addictive and informative. His 'Say What You See' drawings representing book titles - for example a gravestone bearing the symbol p - are a particular highlight. This volume collects together twenty-four quizzes, including a Christmas-themed one, for you to play at home, with friends and family or via Zoom. The perfect gift for the book lover in your life.
Gary's quiz nights are genuinely legendary, and in the old times they were a place you could guarantee seeing at least one or two of the QI Elves - racking our brains. So I can't recommend this book highly enough . . .
Perfect for book-lovers, quiz-lovers and literary-fact-lovers. Witty and interesting; clever and challenging - while still having something for everyone (especially those brilliant Say What You See drawings). This book is great fun.
A quiz book that manages that elusive balance between the hugely satisfying and the brain ticklingly challenging. A must have for book lovers.
My favourite quiz, now in book form!
Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm's bookworm.
Think you know your literary trivia? Think again! A fun, and occasionally fiendish, collection of questions to test even the most ardent quizzer.
As we inch towards the end of the year that saw many of us became ardent armchair quizzers, The Book Lover's Quiz Book is the ideal Christmas present for the reader in your life, regardless of age, ability, or taste. So much love and thought has gone into making this book both challenging and accessible. Loved the touches of humour throughout.
This is the ultimate literary quiz book and Gary Wigglesworth is the quizmaster to end all quizmasters.