In these days of the trivia craze, when the utmost pleasure is realised from knowing more of those irritating titbits than the next man, how can yet another trivia book create excitement? ~ (answer) ~ When it's a trivia book about our own hometown ~ Liverpool.

You now have in your hand the ultimate argument settler, the bible of Scouse facts. No more will you be thwarted by the bar~room bore who knows everything. With this volume you have the ammunition to fight back with a priceless compendium of catalogued curios about our hometown. What is Ian Botham's connection with Merseyside? What does the series ‘Brideshead Revisited’ have Liverpool to thank for? Where was Peter Adamson really born? Yet the A~Z of Scouseology isn't just a massive list of facts. It's put together with the humour and the asides Scousers are noted for and the authors have obviously enjoyed every moment of their research into the depths of Scouse trivia, and that shines through.