From pirates to despots, Romans emperors to French monarchs, cartoon characters to literary villains and New Testament figures to the full angelic hierarchy, this ingenious and fascinating reference book gathers together thousands of names for, and of, nearly everything - objects, people, places, inventions, characters and much, much more. In fact everything except names of babies - and it could provide some ideas for those too....

Endlessly browsable, it is also an invaluable source of information for adults and children alike. If you've ever wanted or needed to know the length of every major river, the name of every Pope, the full satanic hierarchy, all the animal collective nouns, the world's currently active volcanoes, the names of all the muscles in the human body, every major British football team of a hundred and one other things, then this is indeed the book for you.