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Strikingly illustrated...beguiling -The Washington Post Brooke-Hitching is a wry, likable ring master, threading his acts together with an arch, enjoyable erudition.and The Madman's Library, bursting at the seams, is really rather wonderful.- The Spectator (US) Bursts with life-from its eye-catching dust jacket to its gorgeous endpapers to its vibrant illustrations throughout-and it delivers exactly what it promises: cryptic books, literary hoaxes, and all manner of bookish oddities. The Madman's Library is nothing short of spectacular. - Fine Books Collections Gift Guide pick Elegant and witty, and a real joy. - What's On Gift Guide selection [Brooke-Hitching] spent a decade on the trail of the world's oddest books, from tomes written in bood and indecipherablre codes to those bound in human skin and everything in between. This sumptuously illustrated book about books will thrill any esoteric bibliophile in your life. -- Mental Floss The Madman's Library, bursting at the seams, is really rather wonderful. -The Spectator (UK) The Madman's Library, bursting at the seams, is really rather wonderful. -The Spectator (UK)

The Madman's Library, bursting at the seams, is really rather wonderful. -The Spectator (UK)

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Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of beautifully illustrated non-fiction titles, such as The Phantom Atlas and The Sky Atlas. A writer for the hit BBC television show QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Edward lives in a dusty heap of old books and maps in London.

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