Book Facts

Longest title of a book to date: 290 words by David Ciliberti, published in Italy in July 2007 - it describes the idiosyncrasies of the PR world - we don't have room to write it out in full!

Best selling copyright book, (so not including The Bible), "The Guiness Book of Records", sold over 100 million copies, worldwide, in June 2001.

Most books typed backwards!, 58 books typed by Michele Santelia in Campobasso, Italy in December 2005

For longest novel in English there is competition between a number of titles including; L. Ron Hubbard's "Mission Earth", 1.2 million words in 10 volumes, published 1986-1988, Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa", 3rd edition, 1748, over 1 million words in 9 volumes, and Madison Cooper's "Sironia Texas", published in 1952 and estimated as 1,100,000 words.

Oldest English Epic is believed to be "Beowulf", mythical tale of the hero Beowulf's battle against the monster Grendel and his vengeful mother.