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Booked Up 2008

Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You

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Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You
Mitchell Symons

This non-fiction book is full of interesting and humorous facts that will make you laugh out loud, and possibly answer some of life’s great mysteries, such as why eating bogeys is good for you and where a joey’s droppings go when it is in its mother’s pouch. The question-and-answer format of Mitchell Symons’ book makes it ideal to dip in and out of.

About the author
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Mitchell Symons
Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You

Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning weekly column for the Sunday Express.

Read an extract

(Pages 100, 136, 170)

"What is the oldest trick in the book?

Which came first – the chicken or the egg?

Why do we never see baby pigeons?"

Extract taken from Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You by Mitchell Symons published by Random House

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