THINK you know your county? Then a second offering on the bookshelves from Charles Wood this Christmas is the ‘Somerset Quiz Book‘ – nearly 100 pages of questions covering every topic imaginable .

They cover history, geography, dialect, just about everything and are bound to have you arguing in the pub all the way to your next pint or pub quiz. They include such categories as: simples, core education, battling about, local verbiage, a sporting chance, pure buggerbiddle, old stories, the literary landscape, truthful rumours, wild things, face the music and ‘gurt screen and corner box’.

So if you know who described his low ceilinged and dark cottage as a “hovel, a shed, damp and infested with mice”, or if you don’t know but want to, then this is the book for you. It is great fun, informative, annoying, argumentative and a super Christmas stocking present which in turn will keep you away from watching the TV for a few hours after Christmas lunch.

Charles Wood, who lives in Wiveliscombe, has also just published ‘Surviving Another Somerset Year’, his follow-up to ‘How to Survive in Somerset’, available now.

Charles Wood’s Somerset Quiz Book, by Charles Wood, published by Halsgrove, £8.99 (from local stockists or Halsgrove Direct on 01823 653777).

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