Bill Bryson’s bestselling travel books
include The Lost Continent, Notes from
a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods and
Down Under. His acclaimed book on the
history of science, A Short History of Nearly
Everything, was shortlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize, and won the Aventis Prize for
Science Books and the Descartes Science
Communication Prize. He has written on
language in Mother Tongue and Made
in America, and his latest bestsellers are
Shakespeare and his childhood memoir The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.