The QI Book of the Dead 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 Mitchinson. It is a book of "quite interesting" obituaries. "The QI Book of the Dead" was first published by Faber and Faber in hardback on 5 November 2009. The idea of the book originated before the television series "QI" was broadcast. Mitchinson wrote in an article for the "Daily Telegraph" newspaper that,
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