The irresistible book by Bill Bryson which does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling
books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small
Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of
the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island
was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work
of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the
Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling
non-fiction book of its decade in the UK. His new book The Body- A
Guide for Occupants is an extraordinary exploration of the human
body which will have you marvelling at the form you occupy.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.
A work of constant delight and discovery. Bryson's wit is both dry
and charmingly goofy. His great skill is to make daily life
simultaneously strange and familiar, and in so doing, help us to
recognise ourselves. At Home is a treasure: don't leave home
without it.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Enchanting...a book about reinventing the ordinary, and finding the
extraordinary in the humdrum business of living...Bryson tackled
science in his brilliant A Short History of Nearly Everything. This
new book could as easily be categorised as 'a short history of
nearly everything else'...extraordinarily entertaining.
*The Times*
The much-loved writer takes the attention to detail that made A
Short History of Nearly Everything such a fantastic guide to all
things science, and applies it to our homes. Written in his
laid-back style, this is a wonderful celebration of what makes a
house a home.
*News of the World*
Quite as ambitious as his A Short History of Nearly Everything.
This is a genuinely compelling book...a kind of layman's
encyclopaedia full of 'did you know' moments...This companionable
volume is as dense as a rich fruit cake and, by the same measure,
rewarding, too.
*Country Life*
A charming read that blends scholarship with warm writing and
provides an endless source of banter for dinner parties.
*Good Housekeeping*
The method is to amass a dazzling number of facts and findings from
disparate sources...riveting...arguing with Bryson is part of the
enjoyment of reading him, and accompanying him across swathes of
layered history.
*Spectator*
By rummaging down the back of the nation's sofa, Bryson has come up
with a light-hearted and endlessly fascinating story...What you
want from him is his wry humour and ability to raise a quizzical
eyebrow at the sheer oddness of the human race.
*Mail on Sunday*
Bryson hoards facts. He can't resist a well-turned story...An
idiosyncratic sweep through the makings of modernity.
*Observer*
At Home takes us on a tour not merely of Bryson's house but of the
amazingly well-stocked mind of a man who can see a world in a grain
of sand. He addresses his readers as if they were welcome visitors
to his home whom he is eager both to inform and to entertain; he is
a guide of inexhaustible patience, good humour, and irresistible
enthusiasm.
*The Lady*
Entertaining, fact-packed...He is a cheery,idiosyncratic guide,
eclectic rather than scholarly, a true populariser. At Home will
have every reader eyeing home rather differently.
*Financial Times*
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