The Book of General Ignorance was released in the UK a year after "The Book of General Ignorance", on 4 October 2007. An audiobook adaptation called "The Sound of General Ignorance" was scripted and read by the authors on 4 November 2008. On 25 December 2008 an extended version of the book, entitled "The Noticeably Stouter Edition", was published to coincide with "QI" moving to BBC One. This new version included new facts, quotes from the show, a list of all the episodes made at the time, an index, and a new collection of "Four words" from Davies. On 1 November 2007 another "QI" spin-off
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage