It's the moment the publishing world has been waiting for. The Book of the Year has just been published.

This is the title, however, and not an accolade. The book is by the team behind the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, aka the QI Elves James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber.

The Book of the Year is precisely what its title promises: a fact-filled journey into the more bizarre reaches of the past twelve months. Among many, many other things, it will establish:

·         Who has played the greater number of golf rounds since the turn of 2017: Rory McIlroy or Donald Trump

·         Precisely how many members of Britain’s Parachute Regiment aren’t actually qualified to use parachutes

·         Why a parliamentary inquiry into why parliamentary inquiries take so long has been delayed

Venturing fearlessly from Australia (where toad-flavoured sausages are being deployed to stop predators from eating real toads) to India (where you can now buy a washing machine with a special curry stain button), this will be the year, not as the headlines defined it, but as it ought to be remembered.

No Such Thing As A Fish says: ‘We promised Penguin Random House we’d write the book of the year and we think the title is a very strong start. Right now the world is full of news that is believable but fake. This book will be packed with news that’s unbelievable but true.’

Buy The Book of the Year here.