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Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Shakespeare - The World As a Stage by Bill Bryson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright.Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has remained centre stage. His fame stems not o ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
'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 remarkable ab ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bryson Ser.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation?s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC ...Show more
Walkabout: A Walk in the Woods + Down Under by Bill Bryson
$20.50 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Combined in one volume are Bryson's