Right heres a quiz question for you.
[b]
What is the biggest selling paperback book ever published in the UK?[/b]

Lets see who can get it first.

I will put a clue on if noone gets it.

Is it not the Bible?

harry potter?

[quote name='Rikos' post='507531' date='Feb 6 2008, 03:06 PM']Right heres a quiz question for you.
[b]
What is the biggest selling paperback book ever published in the UK?[/b]

Lets see who can get it first.

I will put a clue on if noone gets it.[/quote]


The Highway Code?

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock?


Stav

car log books?

i reckon the Bible!

I only read text messages & this site so aint got a clue

No correct answers so far.

The bible is the biggest selling book in the world but not the biggest selling paperback book published in the UK.

Whos next?

the sun?

[quote name='shake' post='507564' date='Feb 6 2008, 03:46 PM']the sun?[/quote]

Nice try but not the one.

I feel like Roy Walker on Catchphrase

the davinci code?

first guess is Davinci Code like Mat, but second is the dictionary?

[quote name='Best' post='507538' date='Feb 6 2008, 03:18 PM']The Highway Code?[/quote]
I'd have said that. I read it on the back of a pack of Tortilla Chips once.

Not right i'm afraid would you like a clue?

But Dorito's said it was! That's th last time I believe a Mexican then.

Underlay underlay ..... hang on a minute that was the guy from DFS that said that!

bridget jones diary?

Nope

bugger

errrrr

Must be one of these right? Can't be bothered to actually figure out which one though

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books"]Linky[/url]

Fiction or non fiction?

Is it a play on words the "BIGGEST selling paperback"? I have this Atlas that is enormous. It's about two and a half foot high!

May we have a clue? Pretty please on toast.

yellow pages , everyone has a copy

It's not a selling paperback though. Good suggestion though. I'm with Geoffers and think it may be a trick question (playing on 'biggest') - something like an Ordanance Survey map or something?

No trick on words.

Clue is - it was published between 1940-1944!

Parthiban - it's not on that lists but i'm assured i am correct in my statement.

ration books?

was it anything by:

Richard Llewellyn
A. J. Cronin
Franz Werfel
Lloyd C. Douglas
Osa Johnson
Wiliam Shirer
Marion Hargrove
John Roy Carlson
Lilian Smith
Bob Hope

???

[quote name='Rob's Lexx' post='507757' date='Feb 6 2008, 09:13 PM']was it anything by:

Richard Llewellyn
A. J. Cronin
Franz Werfel
Lloyd C. Douglas
Osa Johnson
Wiliam Shirer
Marion Hargrove
John Roy Carlson
Lilian Smith
Bob Hope

???[/quote]

None of those.

Not a ration book but your thinking kind of along the right lines

the diary of anne frank

never reading books or know anything about books cos i can''t read very well so i dont know but i think mat as a good one with anne frank

hmmm, those are the best selling books of the 40's according to my notes!?
guess it must be a little more outside the box than fiction/non-fiction books......

i've already won!!!

101 Things to do in War Time?

Stav

is it the diary of anne frank then???

any proof that its that?? be interesting to read some figures......

Anne Frank wasnt published till 1947, and was written 42-44

[quote name='sparkystav' post='507804' date='Feb 6 2008, 10:13 PM']Anne Frank wasnt published till 1947, and was written 42-44[/quote]

exactly what i thought..............

is it mein kampf by adolf hitler

Still no correct answers i'm afraid.

Another clue - There was a copy in every household and was a book that was needed more than for an afternoon read.

is it some kind of list where the air raid shelters were?
or the radio times?

How's about that famous book 'How to 'Trinny and Susannah your gas mask - 100 exciting ways to wear a gas mask without looking like a gay insect'

Ha Ha "Gay insect". That has really tickled me. It looks exactly like that!

Not a book of matches? (not sure if they were even out in that format at that time)

Still no right answers but Wylie gets 2nd place for the gay insect comment

just tell us what it is mate, or u'll get naga'd!!!!

so this book had to be bought?? it wasn't a freebie type thing??

Yellow Pages?

BT phone book?

i dont think the yellow pages etc were around in the 1940's!

identity cards? vacination cards?

like rob said. was it a freebie or did they buy the 'paperback'?

Bus Time Tables

[b]Guide to Aircraft Recognition [/b]is the answer

Came in handy i imagine deciding whether to duck and cover or wave

so that was a book that had to be purchased???

can't find any mention of that book, and/or it being published at that time nly had a quick google search though....

It was in the guiness book of records fella

I still stick with my gay insect idea.