title: The London Companion (A Think Book)
author: Jo Swinnerton
description: Ever wonder what happens to the 36,000 tennis balls used at the annual Wimbledon championships? Or what was on the menu at Henry IVs coronation? Would you like to know how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack? Or how to say hello in 20 different languages? The delightfully eclectic, exceedingly collectable volumes in the <i>Companion Series</i> are bursting with useful trivia and quirky facts to amuse and amaze. Pleasingly designed, eminently browsable, downright addictive.
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  ALSO BY JAMIE MCGUIRE
  
  
  _Beautiful Disaster_
  
  
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  First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
  
  
  A CBS COMPANY
  
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Jamie McGuire
  
  
  This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.
  
  
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  ISBN: 978-1-47111-514-1
  
  
  eBook ISBN: 978-1-47111-515-8
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  
  
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