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

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

Road to Little Dribbling - More Notes from a Small Island (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted

Shakespeare (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

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

Stopping Places - A Journey Through Gypsy Britain (Bas Damian Le)(Paperback / softback)

Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Covers Britain in the early eighteenth

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

Goats From A Small Island - Grabbing Mallorcan Life by the Horns (Nicholas Anna)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

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

Mother Tongue - The Story of the English Language (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, this book covers curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn

Seeing Further - The Story of Science and the Royal Society(Paperback / softback)

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from

Fallout - A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste (Pearce Fred)(Paperback / softback)

Big British Railway Puzzle Book (National Railway Museum)(Paperback / softback)

Journey your way through Britain with over 100 brainteasers, conundrums and train-related

Risk Pool (Russo Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son

Long Road from Jarrow: A Journey Through Britain Then and Now (Maconie Stuart)(Paperback)

Three and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches and drill halls. Now we are nation of vaping and nail salons, pulled pork and salted caramel.In the

Child's Journey Through Placement (Fahlberg Vera I.)(Paperback / softback)

To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of - the fated island of Lindisfarne. Known by the Romans as Insula Medicata and famous for its monastery, it even survived Viking raids. Today the isle maintains its position as a space for retreat and spiritual

Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (Grindrod John)(Paperback / softback)

Churchill's Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight (Clark Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Clark takes us on a geographical journey through Churchill's life, following his footsteps through Britain and Ireland. More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark's book,

Black Rainbow - How words healed me: my journey through depression (Kelly Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

How words healed me - my journey through

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

Promised Land (Remarque Erich Maria)(Paperback / softback)

From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe. This book tells the stories of the precarious life of the

Wildwood - A Journey Through Trees (Deakin Roger)(Paperback / softback)

From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, the author embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with trees. He tells about the element wood, as it exists in