Publisher's Synopsis
This volume features hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paper clip to the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates.
About the Publisher
Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.
