Bill Bryson
Mother Tongue
$9.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue is a hymn to the English language. In examining how a second-rate, mongrel tongue came to be the undisputed language of the globe. Bryson explores English from America to Australia and looks a... More »
Mother Tongue
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
In this hymn to the mother tongue Bill Bryson examines how a language 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' has now become the undisputed global language (more people learn English ... More »
Shakespeare
$23.00 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Ba... More »
Notes From A Small Island
$24.95 (Paperback book / Blackstone Press )
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven night... More »
Walk In The Woods
$24.95 (Paperback book / Bantam Press )
The longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, through some of the most arresting and celebrated landscapes in America.
At ... More »
Notes From A Big Country
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth! After two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs. Br... More »
Made In America
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular cult... More »
Neither Here Nor There
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Blackstone Press )
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books for years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his ... More »
Lost Continent
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Black Sparrow )
And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a m... More »
Down Under
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Forget Crocodile Dundee, Castlemaine XXXX and the 2000 Sydney Olympics - Bill Bryson is the man to put Australia on the map. Bill Bryson has traversed the length and breadth of Australia to bring us his first major new b... More »
Troublesome Words
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to problems of English usage and spelling. Originally published as The Penguin Dictionary of T... More »
Bryson's Dictionary For Writers And Editors
$45.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )
From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.
What is the difference between... More »
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
$29.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERTHING is his quest t... More »
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jer... More »
A Really Short History Of Nearly Everything
$39.95$33.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )
Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illustration that captivated him - a cutaway diagram showing Earth's interio... More »