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New Bill Bryson book in the works

11 years ago

I occasionally check Bill Bryson's website and found this today (I don't know when the actual announcement was made):

The Road to Little Dribbling: Announcement

Bill Bryson’s first travel book in 15 years will be published in the
UK this autumn. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small
Island will be a new journey around Britain.

Over twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to
celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The
hilarious book he wrote about that journey, Notes from a Small Island,
became one of the most loved books of recent decades, and was voted in a
BBC poll as the book that best represents Britain. Now, for his first
travel book in fifteen years, Bryson sets out again, on a long-awaited,
brand-new journey around the UK.
Doubleday will publish in UK hardcover in autumn 2015.

I enjoyed Notes from a Small Island, and hope this will be just as good. He is still one of my buy-the-book-immediately authors, so I hope there will be an American release date soon, as well!

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blue_jean_baby

11 years ago

I have, and I really enjoyed it. It was quite a few months in history!!

The only other one I've read was In A Sunburned Country, but I want to eventually read all his books.

Dawn

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vee_new
11 years ago
Sheri, I shall certainly look out for it. Notes from a Small Island really got into the peculiarities of 'us', ie the English. Luckily we don't take ourselves too seriously and it was very funny.
annpanagain
11 years ago
I have made a note of this as I enjoyed "Small Island" very much.
Reading about the pleasure in having a beach hut reminded me of when I was young and we moved to the seaside. My great ambition was to have one. It was the centre of all the Enid Blyton-type stories I used to tell my little sister to get her off to sleep and having the use of one was the height of luxury in my seven year old mind.
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Rosefolly z5
11 years ago
I enjoy some of his books tremendously, but others not so much. My favorites were A Walk in the Woods and A Sunburned Country. His most recent book on the history of houses I thought I would love, but it wasn't what I thought it would be and it bored me to tears. I did not finish it. They are not an automatic purchase for me. I get them from the library. If I find I like the books, then I buy them.
vee_new
11 years ago
Ann, my Mother used to hire a beach hut for a couple of weeks each summer at Frinton on the bracing coast facing the North Sea. Just a simple room fronted by a veranda. A couple of benches, a corner cupboard and a couple of deck chairs were the only furnishings plus a smelly primus stove, kettle and a few cups and plates. Water was from a stand-pipe along the 'prom'. It could only be used during the daytime as overnight stays were not allowed. A great place to shelter from the cold wind and rain and eat sandy jam sandwiches . . . a typical English sea-side holiday!
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sheri_z6
Original Author
11 years ago
Rosefolly, I agree with your assessment of the house book -- it was just dull. After loving The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and A Short History of Nearly Everything I was really expecting something with more energy to it.

Has anyone read his newest, One Summer: America 1927? I have the book but haven't started it yet.
Rosefolly z5
11 years ago
Sheri, I bought One Summer for my DH for Christmas this year, but he hasn't got around to that one quite yet. He got a lot of books, about half of them from me! I am intrigued, but don't feel I can read it until after he does.

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