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These four books are full all those useful facts and handy tricks from your childhood to help you rediscover all that long-buried knowledge you thought you had forgotten. I Before E is an unmissable collection of memory aids that we all learnt long ago, on a huge range of subjects, including that old solar system classic ‘My Very Excellent Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines’. I Used to Know That provides the answers to pretty much everything you’ll ever need to know, for impressing your children or winning the pub quiz. Covering English Language and Literature, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Geography and General Studies, this little guide will ensure you never again find yourself stumped. My Grammar and I is the go-to guide for anyone who has ever had a problem with dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those who have no idea what these things even are. Last, but certainly not least, Remember, Remember is a history of Britain in bitesize chunks, containing all of the important dates, people and events that we should know, reminding us of what we've forgotten from school and perhaps teaching us something new.
This indispensable collection will guarantee you never again have to root through the depths of your memory trying to retrieve that fact, date, rhyme or acronym that’s on the tip of your tongue.