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  • Published: 10 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473532243
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book




An official, brain-busting puzzle book for Shipping Forecast fans – a mixture of wordplay, lateral thinking, and seaside knowledge, from Viking to Southeast Iceland

Attention all Shipping Forecast fans. Set sail on a voyage unlike any other...

Each day, millions tune in to hear the Shipping Forecast's unique cadence and poetry, words thatturn our island landscape into something strangeand magical. It's almost like a puzzle to be solved...

The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book tests your general knowledge and lateral thinking through a series of fiendish puzzles, in which all the answers can be found on a map as place names on the coasts or in the seas. For example:

· An eagle's under this
· What a Komodo Dragon really is
· Near where someone was horribly cruel to 343 felines

And because your voyages trace the shapes of letters of the alphabet, that's just the beginning...

With a foreword by Zeb Soanes, the voice of the Shipping Forecast, and fully illustrated with specially commissioned maps, The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book will help make you a Master of the quizzing world.

  • Published: 10 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473532243
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

Alan Connor

Alan Connor's books include 188 Words for Rain, Two Girls, One on Each Knee and The Joy of Quiz. He has been the question editor for Richard Osman's House of Games and Only Connect. He has written official books for The Traitors, Pointless, The Shipping Forecast and Jack Reacher. He has been the puzzle consultant for Ludwig and Inside No 9. He is an Emmy-nominated scriptwriter whose credits include Borat 2, Charlie Brooker's Wipe and Have I Got News for You. He writes in the shed on his family's allotment where possible.

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