Ben Schott – författare

SCHOTT IS BACK – and better than ever. From the mind behind the million-copy bestseller Schott’s Original Miscellany comes an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and secret languages of our modern age.A must-have book for word nerds, culture lovers and the endlessly curious.'Beyond extraordinary' Gyles Brandreth ‘The Rosetta Stone for modern times’ Graydon Carter‘This truly remarkable book is quite unlike any other work of etymology or entertainment’ Andrew Roberts‘Ben Schott … cannot write an inelegant sentence’ The Times--When do London cabbies take oranges and lemons?How do marmalade droppers sell newspapers?Who eats the forbidden brownie at Starbucks?Secret languages surround us. From graffiti writers, gondoliers, and gym rats to spies, sneakerheads, and Swifties — every group creates a private lingo of jargon and gesture that eludes the rest of the world.Not anymore.In Schott’s Significa, Ben Schott — bestselling author and master curator of the ungoogleable — unlocks 53 of the most intriguing linguistic subcultures, including: Casinos and cryptoDoctors and dog walkersBartenders and typographersStunt performers and church ushersPaparazzi snappers and competitive eaters.Painstakingly researched, lavishly illustrated and exquisitely designed, Schott’s Significa is more than a miscellany of secret languages.It’s a celebration of the power of communication, the joy of connection, and the delight of discovery.

"Schott's Miscellany" makes few claims to be exhaustive or even practical. It does, however, claim to be essential. It will afford you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an enlightened smile after dark. Where else can you find, packed on to one page, the thirteen principles of witchcraft, the structure of military hierarchy, all of the clothing care symbols, a list of the countries where you drive on the left, and a nursery rhyme about sneezing? Where else, but "Schott's Miscellany", will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? An encyclopaedia? A dictionary? An almanac? An anthology? A treasury? An amphigouri? A commonplace? A vade-mecum? Well - yes. "Schott's Original Miscellany" is all these, and, of course, more. A book like no other, "Schott's Original Miscellany" is entertaining, informative, unpredictable and utterly addictive.

'Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.’ Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR__________________________________________________________________Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril. Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majesty's Government must turn to the one man who can help . . . Bertie Wooster.'A most thrilling return of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster . . . it vibrates with the spirit and the rhythms of his heart.''Remarkably good . . . in its similes, pace and general zing, this yarn is eerily Wodehousian.'

'A masterpiece in every sense' Daily MailThe Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. And His Majesty's Government needs a favour. Thank goodness Bertie Wooster is back!From the mean streets of Mayfair to the scheming spires of Cambridge, prepare to meet a joyous cast of characters: chiselling painters and criminal bookies, eccentric philosophers and dodgy clairvoyants, appalling poets and pocket dictators, vexatious aunts and their vicious hounds.Have we ever needed Jeeves and Wooster more?