Hot off the press and a great present for all ages, vibrantly illustrated book 365 Amazing True Things to Read in Bed is bursting with weird wonders, unbelievable stories and wild facts! Written by past Farleigh pupil and former QI writer, Edward Brooke-Hitching (1996 leaver), and beautifully illustrated by Oksana Drachkovska. This is a playful and surprising non-fiction book which you and your children will return to night after night - from frog trousers and glass trees to lawnmowing camels and chimpanzee painters, this is a book made for curious minds and giggly bedtimes. Each bite-sized story is perfect for winding down, sparking questions and filling young heads with big, brilliant thoughts. Signed copies are available on request at Hungerford Bookshop. Please see more here.

Edward Brooke-Hitching is also the author of the acclaimed bestselling titles The Devil’s Atlas (2021), The Madman’s Library (Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year 2020), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Phantom Atlas (2016), and Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). Edward is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has appeared on TV and radio programmes including Start the Week with Andrew Marr, the BBC Radio 2 Arts Show with Jonathan Ross, NPR, BBC 6 Music with Cerys Matthews and BBC Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity. His writings on eccentric history have featured in the Guardian, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Literary Review, the Spectator, the Economist, the Washington Post and other publications around the world.

The son of an antiquarian book and map dealer, Franklin Brooke-Hitching, he worked for a London auctioneering company before taking up writing. An unsuccessful amateur sword-swallower, in 2017 he performed the first ever televised “fox tossing” during promotion of his book of the same name about forgotten sports from history. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps, books and other antiquarian curiosities in Berkshire.