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

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

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

Shakespeare (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TELEPHONE SERVICE VEHICLES SINCE 1906 (ALDRIDGE BILL)(Paperback)

A comprehensive history from GPO to BT, from utitlity vehicles to road haulage fleets. Includes livery and fleet

Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" - Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book Nine (Watterson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

More brilliant Calvin and Hobbes cartoons from Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Bill

Level 3: Billy Elliot (Pearson Education)(Paperback)

Contemporary / British English Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finally he has found something that he can do well. But everybody knows that ballet is for girls, not boys Will Billy

Messages from Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour (Hanski Ilkka)(Paperback)

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, Messages from Islands is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands on which he performed fieldwork to convey key

The Green Road (Enright Anne)(Paperback)

From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness--a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.Spanning thirty years,

Cupcakes, Cupcakes & More Cupcakes! (German Lilach)(Paperback)

Yum! Yum! and more Yum! Rich and chocolaty, light and lemony, small and sweet and sprinkled with little hearts for Valentine's Day, these gourmet creations from a Le Cordon Bleu Chef taste heavenly and look beautiful. With recipes ranging from very adult, sophisticated creations for celebratory

St Kilda (Seton George)(Paperback)

The small island archipelago of St Kilda, which rises majestically from the stormy waters of the North Atlantic, has a magic and allure which is both enduring and inexplicable. For centuries, St Kilda's remoteness (it lies sixty miles west of the Scottish Hebrides), together with the way of life of

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

Little Labors (Galchen Rivka)(Paperback)

In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers--Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis

Africa Is Not a Country (Melnicove Mark)(Paperback)

Africa is not a country. From the tiny island nations of Comoros, Seychelles, and S o Tom and Pr ncipe, to its largest country (Sudan), Africa is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres. Unlike any other continent, it is divided into two almost equal lengths by the equator, and it is

Encyclopedia of Dahlias (McClaren Bill)(Paperback)

Includes 700 dahlia selections, with notes on history, awards, and where to buy. With more than 800 color

More Tales from The Island Nurse (MacLeod Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Mary J. Macleod travelled from the South of England to the Hebrides in search of escape from the life of a hectic Norwich health visitor and to find an idyllic setting in which to raise her young family.The Island Nurse returns with a second volume, exploring memories of life on the Hebridean

Icons of England (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub

Small Island: (stage Version) (Levy Andrea)(Paperback)

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's