First published back in the early 1980s, "the Book of Predictions" is best experienced as a book chock full of predictions that time has proved incredibly wrong.

Produced by the "People's Almanac" team of Wallaces and Wallechinskys, this is a not overly interesting book, where my favourite moment was someone predicting that cricket Test matches would be played to large crowds in New York and noting that no one could possibly predict the internet. ( )

This is still very much fun to read because now we can check the accuracy. ( )

Twenty five years after the publication of this book, it is far more interesting than it was at its original debut. The book is little more than predictions - some by famous people, some by well-qualified authorities. Reading it now, it is quaint, amusing, sad, startling to see how accurate or inaccurate these predictions were. ( )