In a Sunburned Country (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

In a Sunburned Country (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an

Down Under - Travels in a Sunburned Country (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite

Body (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

The extraordinary Bill Bryson takes us from the Big Bang to the dawn of science in this book about basically everything.Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something?Or thought about how we can weigh the earth?Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe?Uncover the mysteries of time, space and

Shakespeare (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and

Made In America - An Informal History of American English (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Funny, wise, learned and compulsive. (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

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 Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of

Walk In The Woods - The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Bill Bryson is one of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journey-into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It's a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson

Bill Bryson's African Diary (Bryson Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the

Neither Here, Nor There - Travels in Europe (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in

One Summer - America 1927 (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. This book brings to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre

A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson's exciting, informative journey into the world of science.In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of One Summer, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to

Body - A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its

Lost Continent - Travels in Small-Town America (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of

In My Mind's Eye - A Thought Diary (Morris Jan)(Paperback / softback)

A treat for fans of Alan Bennett's diaries and the works of Bill Bryson and Diana

Notes From A Small Island - Journey Through Britain (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his

Billy Liar - A Comedy (Waterhouse Keith)(Paperback)

A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker's clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth

Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold - Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail (Moore Tim)(Paperback / softback)

'Bill Bryson on two wheels'. (Independent). Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Explore the mysteries of the universe without ever leaving your home Bill Bryson takes on the world of science and answers questions big and small, perfect for curious readers looking to learn outside of the classroom Did you know that: - Every atom in your body has almost certainly passed

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a 'terribly misguided and terribly funny' (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body 'The best way of escaping into nature.'--The New York Times Back in America after

Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24