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The World According to Cunk

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The World According to Cunk

Contributors:

By (Author) Philomena Cunk
With Ben Caudell

ISBN:

9781399819381

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publication Date:

14th January 2025

UK Publication Date:

3rd October 2024

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Film, television, radio genres: Comedy and humour
Comedy and stand-up

Dewey:

902.07

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 138mm, Height 220mm, Spine 26mm

Weight:

380g

Description

Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Revolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War! All of this (except trumpets) and more, is covered in this definitive, easy-clean history of all world history so far, written by the 21st Century's leading historian, philosopher and thinkerer Philomena Cunk.

Focussing on the inventions, art and brainboxes that made the modern world the unbearable place it is today, The World According To Cunk is the history book to end all history books: more unputdownable than Andrew Marr's History Of The World, less unpickupable than Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, and noticeably less in ancient greek than Herodotus' Histories.

Philomena Cunk says: "About the world, written on the world, and available at all the world's remaining bookshops, The World According To Cunk is the definitive history of the world. There will never need be another history book. Unless something major happens. Even then they'll probably just put something up on TikTok about it. A word of warning: please don't buy it if you're expecting anything about trumpets in it. You will only be disappointed."

Author Bio

Philomena Cunk is a journalist, historian and hot-taker who has presented TV shows on everything from time and feminism to Shakespeare and Britain, and really should get round to doing a podcast while they're still a thing. She asks the big questions other journalists are, for some reason, afraid to, like "How important are the words in Shakespeare's plays", 'Why do we cry when it's the onions getting hurt' and "What is clocks"

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