An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World | Delayed Gratification

The world’s most mind-boggling questions, answered through 200 brilliantly clever and addictive infographics.

What's the best book ever written?
What would happen if we all stopped eating meat?
What's the secret to living past 110?
And what actually is the best thing since sliced bread?

In An Answer for Everything, 200 of the world’s most mind-boggling questions are explained by way of brilliantly clever and addictive infographics. Some will make you giggle, others hit like a sucker punch, and then there are the slow burners, where you can geek out over a data set for hours.

Authored by the team behind Delayed Gratification, the world’s best slow journalism magazine, these deeply researched infographics are a compelling and darkly funny way to see the world around us with new eyes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“The intersection of data and design yields rich, consideration-worthy results―not to mention offering provocative fodder for discussion and debate. The graphics are colorful, witty, and enhance the data presented.” - Booklist

“This book is one of those you want to leave in that place where you always seem to have time to spare, because every page is browse-able. Just dip in here, tuck in over there, and read any one of the page-or-two entries … There's learning going on here but for sure, whatever you read in this book is fun stuff to know for anyone ages 10 to adult.” - Terri Schlichemeyer, The Bookworm Sez

“[An Answer for Everything] is more than a trivia question collection, but more easily accessible than any general-interest information book could be, adding delightful embellishments, color, and whimsical inspections into life questions to invite readers to both learn and enjoy the power of infographics.” - Diane Donovan

“Highly informative and engaging.” - Portland Book Review

“Fresh, fascinating, and fun – a visual and verbal treat” - Ian Hislop

“A chunky, colourful book packed with fascinating facts and figures in infographic form” - Daily Mirror, Books of the Year

“Data just got a lot more fun” - It's Nice That

“Achieves the ultimate factual book goal; makes you cleverer, with minimal effort on your part. You’ll learn from it but somehow it makes that pleasurable” - Rachel Parris, The Mash Report

“A fabulous compendium of a thousand new things you didn’t know you didn’t know. And it looks very nice too” - Andrew Hunter Murray, No Such Thing as a Fish, QI

“Delayed Gratification is one of my favourite magazines, and one of the best things about it is the infographics. They've now published a book of them and it's glorious!” - Alex Bellos

About the Author

Delayed Gratificationis a quarterly publication that specialises in demystifying the world's biggest news stories in slow retrospection. Every article is supported by beautifully designed and enlightening data-driven infographics.

Delayed Gratification is the UK’s first Slow Journalism magazine. Since 2010 it has been looking back on big events after the dust has settled to tell its readers what happened next.

Delayed Gratification’s first book, An Answer For Everything, was published by Bloomsbury in October 2021 and uses beautiful infographics to answer 200 of the world’s most intriguing questions, both silly and serious.