17 JANUARY 1987, Page 37

No. 1457: Books, books, books

Recently the Times Information Service listed some of last year's silliest titles. They included Board Meetings in the Bath, How to Boil an Egg: Simple Cookery for One, Knit Your Own Skyscraper and Whereon the Wild Thyme Blows: Some Memoirs of Service with the Hong Kong Bank. Ex- tracts, please, to suit one of these titles (maximum 150 words). Entries to 'Com- petition No. 1457' by 30 January.

The top winner of this and the next 11 competitions will receive a bottle of gin through the generosity of Mr William Topham.