Whiling away the hours on the internet search engine Google as a result of a chance email from an Australian, Dave Gorman begins a seemingly pointless mission around the globe.

The reason? To seek out what are known as 'Googlewhackers', which are when two random words are put together in the search engine and then come out with only one hit -- one website with the phrase contained within it.

To suggest it was a totally selfish and pointless exercise would be -- well, a similar feeling portrayed in the first book, Are You Dave Gorman? in fact, but the characters he meets make it an easy, intriguing read.

JAMES CLEARY