Eamon Evans - Small Talk: Tip-top Trivia for Every Social Occasion by Eamon Evans

Ever been stranded in a social situation with nothing to say and nowhere to go? 'Just being yourself' is all very well, but what if you're not very interesting?

Help is at hand. Arranged according to scenario - how to talk to a hairdresser: what to say at a wedding - Smalltalk is teeming with tailor made trivia that will amuse, beguile and charm.

Stuck tight at a buck's night? Study Smalltalk and you have three topics: (1) interesting celebrity sex fetishes, (2) possible closet-dwellers, (3) the most highly sexed people in history.

Forced to go to a funeral? Lighten the mood with tales of amusing deaths and misplaced body parts or hilarious stories of wakes gone wrong.

Whether you need to dazzle at a dinner party or fascinate at the footy, bond at a book club or gel in gaol, Smalltalk will show the way.