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  • Published: 23 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241544495
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $21.00

What Goes Up White and Comes Down Yellow?

The funny, fiendish and fun-filled book of riddles!




A brand-new book of amazing, mind-boggling riddles, from the hilarious and much-loved Gyles Brandreth

When first I appear I seem mysterious,
But when I am explained I am nothing serious.
What am I?

A RIDDLE!

Was that too easy? How about: what goes ninety-nine BONK (a centipede with a wooden leg)? Or which famous book was written by Charles Chickens (Great EGGspectations, of course!)?

In this book you'll find a whole host of amazing riddles. Some will get you head scratching, some will make you laugh, and all are a lot of fun.

Plus find out some brilliant riddling facts, and top tips on how to solve the trickiest brain-teasers.

Written by Master of Funny and Collector of Riddles Gyles Brandreth, this is the ultimate, riotous Book of Riddles!

  • Published: 23 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241544495
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $21.00

About the author

Gyles Brandreth

A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth's varied career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major's government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London's West End. A prolific broadcaster, an acclaimed interviewer (principally for the Sunday Telegraph), a novelist, children's author and biographer, his best-selling diary, Breaking the Code, was described by The Times as 'By far the best political diary of recent years, far more perceptive and revealing than Alan Clark's'. For twenty-five years he has been involved in the work of the National Playing Fields Association, whose Patron is the Queen and whose President is the Duke of Edinburgh. He lives with his family in London.

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