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World Book Club: Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

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07/02/2021 GMT

Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home

Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home.

This month World Book Club discusses Bill Bryson’s hugely acclaimed travelogue Notes from a Small Island with the author and his readers around the world.
 
After two decades as a resident of the United Kingdom, Bryson took what he thought might be a last affectionate trip around his adoptive country before returning to live in his native America. Notes from a Small Island is the irreverent and hilarious account of this meandering journey through his beloved island nation. From Dover to Downing Street, from Giggleswick to Loch Ness by way of Titsey and Nether Wallop, Bryson rejoices in Britain’s inimitable placenames and much else of more substance besides, his very own State of the Nation address, as it were. 

A huge number-one bestseller when it was first published, Notes from a Small Island has become that nation's most loved book about Britain.

(Picture: Bill Bryson. Photo credit: Catherine Williams.)

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