Gift books

Would you be down in the dumps if, when asked the definition of certain phrases, it was all Greek to you?

With the recent scrapping of GCSEs fresh in everyones minds, The O Level Book is the perfect book to settle that age-old argument between the generations: were the exams of yesteryear really harder than anything children have to face today in the age of calculators and spell checkers?

This collection investigates the origins of our most intriguing old-fashioned superstitions, many of which we still find ourselves abiding by today.