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The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book
  • Published: 10 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781785945106
  • Imprint: BBC Books
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99

The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book

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10 Sept 2020
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10 Sept 2020
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An official, brain-busting puzzle book for Shipping Forecast fans – a mixture of wordplay, lateral thinking, and seaside knowledge, from Viking to Southeast Iceland

Attention all Shipping Forecast fans. Set sail on a voyage unlike any other...

Each day, millions tune in to hear the Shipping Forecast's unique cadence and poetry, words thatturn our island landscape into something strangeand magical. It's almost like a puzzle to be solved...

The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book tests your general knowledge and lateral thinking through a series of fiendish puzzles, in which all the answers can be found on a map as place names on the coasts or in the seas. For example:

· An eagle's under this
· What a Komodo Dragon really is
· Near where someone was horribly cruel to 343 felines

And because your voyages trace the shapes of letters of the alphabet, that's just the beginning...

With a foreword by Zeb Soanes, the voice of the Shipping Forecast, and fully illustrated with specially commissioned maps, The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book will help make you a Master of the quizzing world.
  • Published: 10 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781785945106
  • Imprint: BBC Books
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Alan Connor

Alan Connor has been the question editor for BBC2's Only Connect and Richard Osman's House of Games. He is the author of books for Pointless and The Traitors and is the puzzle consultant for the BBC1 drama Ludwig. He writes puzzles for various newspapers and has written for Charlie Brooker series and Have I Got News for You. His favourite quiz question is: What word was intentionally omitted from the screenplay of The Godfather?
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Praise for The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book

'Alan Connor embraces all the idiosyncratic history of the Shipping Forecast and impishly crafts a cryptic voyage of the mind'

Zeb Soanes, the voice of the Shipping Forecast, from his foreword