QI the working title "Quote Interesting". This book was eventually published in 2008 as "Advanced Banter". Similarly, on the Banter feature of the Series B DVD, Lloyd also previewed the title of "QI"s fourth book, "The QI Book of the Dead", which went on sale on 15 October 2009. 7 October 2010 saw the publication of "QI"s fifth book—"The Second Book of General Ignorance". Written by the same authors, this book covers a whole new series of questions on a wide variety of topics, which promises to prove that "everything you think you know is (still) wrong". The sixth "QI" book,
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