An official, brain-busting puzzle book for Shipping Forecast fans - a mixture of wordplay, lateral thinking, and seaside knowledge, from Viking to Southeast Iceland
Alan Connor is a journalist, writer, presenter and puzzle and quiz master. Currently the question setter for Richard Osman's House of Games, he's the former question setter for Only Connect, and sets crosswords for the Guardian and the Observer. His TV writing credits include A Young Doctor's Notebook, Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe and the BBC film The Rack Pack, and he is the author of several books, including Two Girls, One on Each Knee- A History of Cryptic Crossword and The Joy of Quiz. The go-to person for all things puzzle and quiz, his grandfather worked for the Met Office, which helped spark his life-long love of the Shipping Forecast.
'Alan Connor embraces all the idiosyncratic history of the Shipping
Forecast and impishly crafts a cryptic voyage of the mind'
*Zeb Soanes, the voice of the Shipping Forecast, from his foreword*
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