The QI Book of the Dead was Prime Minister, when in fact he was First Lord of the Treasury, with the title of "Prime Minister" not being used to describe the leader of the British government until a century after Shelburne died by Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The people covered in "The QI Book of the Dead" are as follows. The QI Book of the Dead The QI Book of the Dead (sold as "The Book of the Dead" in the United States) is the fourth title in a series of books based on the intellectual British panel game "QI", written by series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John
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