Author28 booksBill Bryson
William McGuire Bryson is an American journalist and author who was naturalized as a British citizen in 2014. Bryson has written nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Bryson moved to Britain in his twenties and remained in the country for most of his adult life. However, he periodically returned to live in the U.S. such as between 1995 and 2003. He was the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.
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Books by Bill Bryson
Every published title we have in the catalogue, ordered by their library.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Walk in the Woods
The Body
At Home
The Lost Continent
Notes from a Small Island
Down Under
The Mother Tongue
Neither Here nor There
Made in America
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
One Summer
Shakespeare
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Road to Little Dribbling
The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words
Bill Bryson's African Diary
Seeing Further
Icons of England
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
The Best American Travel Writing 2000
The palace under the Alps
Granta 31
Granta 26
The English landscape
The Best of Granta travel
Walkabout
Bill Bryson Collector's Edition
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