I am a bit of a history geek and I love finding out weird, odd and unusual facts - the bits of history they don't really teach in school and university.

I was lucky enough to get a copy of this book from the publishers, Bloomsbury Publishing and it's a heavy beastie.  It's chock full of facts and they're conveyed in fun and interesting ways - not just dry and boring information.

The chapters are little puns of things you already may know like The Arabian Heights, Roman Rumble in the Sicilian Jungle and Great British Quaker Off.  

There are brilliant little quizzes you can choose to take.  I think one of my favourite sections was about the eruption of Vesuvius and subsequent destruction of Pompeii but told as if they had "Instagram" back then and an influencer was making a kind of vlog about it!

I thought this was a really fun and irreverent way to get some history into the hands and brains of those who don't think they like history but there is enough new information or new ways of thinking to intrigue the history hounds like myself.  It would make a great stocking stuffer actually!