{"product_id":"two-girls-one-on-each-knee-9781846148415","title":"Two Girls One On Each Knee","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo Girls  One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords is an audaciously constructed book on the pleasures and puzzles of cryptic crosswords and their linguistic wordplay  from Alan Connor  the Guardians writer on crosswords. On 21 December 2013  the crossword puzzle will be 100 years old. In the century since its birth  it has evolved into the worlds most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay  the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls  One on Each Knee  Alan Connor celebrates the wit  ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From the beaches of D-Day to the imaginary worlds of three-dimensional crosswords  to the British school teachers and journalists who turned the form into the fiendish sport it is today  encompassing the most challenging clues  particular tricks  the worlds greatest setters and famous solvers  PG Wodehouse and the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition  this is an ingenious book for lovers of this very particular form of wordplay. Alan Connor writes twice-weekly about crosswords for the Guardian. He has contributed pieces about language for the BBC and the Guardian and works in radio and television  writing with Charlie Brooker and Sue Perkins. His most recent writing was A Young Doctors Notebook  a TV adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov stories starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929958088757,"sku":"ByrdShop_1846148413","price":66.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781846148415.jpg?v=1794202119","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/two-girls-one-on-each-knee-9781846148415","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}