DICKEN’S SLEEPING HABITS

To combat his insomnia and enhance his creativity Charles Dickens would lie in the middle of his bed, facing north, his arms outstretched and his hands equidistant from the edges. He also slept with a compass to ensure that he slept facing north.

CAUGHT READING

A robber in Rome was caught by police when he allegedly became distracted by a book. According to a report by the BBC, the man was about to escape a home in the Italian capital with a bag of stolen expensive fashion items, when he noticed a copy of The Gods at Six O’Clock by Giovanni Nucci. The burglar was then caught red-handed while he was kicked back in the middle of the book. Author of the novel, Giovanni Nucci, thought the whole situation was ‘fantastic’.