Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of....

Reluctant adventurer Bryson recounts his gruelling hike along the longest continuous footpath in the world....

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it....

With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure....

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties, complete, unabridged and read by the author.

Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did....

In Neither Here nor There Bill Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack and journeys from Hammerfest to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia....

Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.... 

Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to suing people, the beach, TV, movies....

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

Audible is proud to present One Summer: America, 1927, the new book by Britain’s favourite writer of narrative nonfiction, Bill Bryson....

The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south....

Sunday Times best-selling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Brys....

Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country....

Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It’s as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it....

Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of....

Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions....

Before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain....