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Alex Bellos

    November 22, 1969

    This author delves into the complexities of the human experience through meticulously crafted prose and keen observation. Their work often explores themes of identity, memory, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. Characterized by a profound understanding of the human psyche, they possess a remarkable ability to capture the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships. Readers value their writing for its intellectual depth and emotional resonance.

    Alex Bellos
    The Language Lover's Puzzle Book
    Where Football Explains the World
    Patterns of the Universe
    Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain
    The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
    Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World
    • 2023

      A fun and essential guide to the world of football and an incredible gift for young fans. Discover everything you've EVER wanted to know about football, from fascinating facts about your favourite players and clubs, to incredible international stats and terrific trivia. Packed with hilarious illustrations, this encyclopedia is anything but boring! Learn about all aspects of the game, including the positions, rules, mascots, nicknames, trophies and tournaments and laugh loads along the way.

      The Football School Encyclopedia
    • 2022

      How much do you know about football and the world? Test yourself and your friends with over 300 brain-busting questions from Football School. Discover questions on star strikers, crafty coaches, momentous matches and much, much more

      Football School: The Greatest Ever Quiz Book
    • 2021

      "Discover the incredible true stories behind the most famous clubs in football. Find out the stories behind the most legendary clubs in football history, such as Manchester United, Real Madrid and Liverpool. Explore how these teams have overcome failure and tragedy to win leagues, lift trophies and enter the record books. Also discover fascinating facts about more unknown clubs, including the German team with a skull and crossbones logo and the most eco-friendly club in the world. Perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players and Football School: Epic Heroes, this collection of fifty true stories is a must-read for any young football fan"--Publisher's description

      Football School Terrific Teams: 50 True Stories of Football's Greatest Sides
    • 2020

      A fun football-themed puzzle activity book that will keep children busy for hours with games and word and number puzzles. Boggle your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed fun with Football School's The Ultimate Puzzle Activity Book. Packed with over 200 brain-teasers, wordsearches, riddles, maths puzzles and logic games, this book is perfect for car journeys, planes and rainy days and is the ideal gift for any young football fan.

      Football School: The Ultimate Puzzle Book
    • 2020

      Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?

      Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain
    • 2020

      Patterns of the Universe

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.3(80)Add rating

      A unique entry in the selling like hotcakes grown-up colouring category, from a bestselling math writer and a topnotch illustrator: 78 colouring designs and games that explore symmetry, fractals, tessellations, randomness, and more!

      Patterns of the Universe
    • 2020

      Celebrate the greatest moments in football history with this collection of 50 true stories. Discover the greatest football moments of all time in this collection of 50 exciting stories, perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players. Who was the dog that found the stolen World Cup? Which player was bought by a club for two freezers full of ice-cream? And what happened in the match that became known as the Miracle of Istanbul? Bringing together the best and most heartfelt moments in the game with some truly weird, wonderful and hilarious occurrences, this book is a must-read for any young football fan

      Football School Epic Heroes
    • 2020

      The Language Lover's Puzzle Book

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.3(163)Add rating

      Crossing continents and borders, bestselling author Alex Bellos has gathered more than one hundred of the world's best conundrums that test your deduction, intuition and street smarts. These lexical perplexities uncover the secrets of languages from Ancient Egyptian to internet slang and will delight fans of wordplay, Sudoku and anyone with a curiosity about the world. Some of the problems are as simple as ABC. Others will have you muttering "it's all Greek to me". Together they celebrate the rich diversity of human language and culture

      The Language Lover's Puzzle Book
    • 2019
    • 2019

      So You Think You've Got Problems?

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.1(31)Add rating

      . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years.

      So You Think You've Got Problems?