Michael Joseph snap up trivia book from Richard Coles, Charles Spencer and Cat Jarman
Michael Joseph has snapped up The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 Adventures into the History of Stuff from Reverend Richard Coles, Charles Spencer and Dr Cat Jarman.
Dan Bunyard, head of non-fiction, acquired world English language rights from Tim Bates at PFD for publication in hardback, e-book and audio on 10th October 2024.
Coles, Spencer and Jarman are hosts of "The Rabbit Hole Detectives" podcast and The Rabbit Hole Book marks the trio’s first trivia book that will "investigate the weird and wonderful provenance of real and metaphorical objects throughout history".
Bunyard said: "Working with three such brilliant, talented authors is a genuine privilege and delight. Each of them has brought a wealth of knowledge and expertise to create a warren that spans runes, submarines, alien abductions and tattoos to goats cheese, King Alfred’s pelvis and an exploding whale, thereby illuminating some of the most curious and fascinating rabbit holes that history offers up."
The authors added: "We see it as our rabbitholing duty to tackle subjects that many would perhaps at first think trivial and obscure, and try to make them as fascinating and entertaining as our listeners—and now readers—deserve. Quirky? Yes. Unobvious? For sure. But, hopefully, also titillating and—occasionally—worthy of a berth in your memory bank."
Coles is the author of the Canon Clement cosy crime series that includes Murder Before Evensong and Murder at the Monastery (both published with Orion). Spencer, brother to the late Princess Diana, has authored seven non-fiction books, including A Very Private School (HarperCollins), a documentation of the abuse he endured at boarding school. Jarman is a bioarchaeologist and field archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age.
