Bill Bryson's eagerly anticipated new book is published, supported by an exciting publicity and marketing campaign

In AT HOME, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING one of the most lauded books of the last decade.

 

Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, wandering from room to room considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.

 

Extracts from the novel have appeared in The Guardian and The Daily Mail and Bill will be speaking at various events including the Charleston and Hay festivals and in a number of Waterstone`s branches.

 

Look out for interviews and reviews across the national papers, including a lead review in The Sunday Times. Listen to Bill on BBC Radio 5 and on Open Book on BBC Radio 4.

 

AT HOME is now available to buy and is currently number one on Amazon's bestseller list.

 

Posted on: Friday, May 28, 2010

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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors   By Bill Bryson   All About Wine   By Jonathan Ray   Grk and the Pelotti Gang   By Josh Lacey   A Taste for Death   By P.D. James   Notes from a Small Island   By Bill Bryson   Tipping The Velvet   By Sarah Waters   I Told You I Was Ill   By John O'Connell   Angelina Ballerina   By Helen Craig   The Buried Circle   By Jenni Mills   The River Cottage Fish Book   By Nick Fisher   The Official Biography of the Queen Mother   By William Shawcross   Stolen   By Lucy Christopher   Rapscallion   By James McGee   Ministry of Food: Thrifty Wartime Ways to Feed Your Family Today   By Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall   River Cottage Everyday   By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall   The Little Stranger   By Sarah Waters   You Don't Have To be Good   By Sabrina Broadbent   Mexican Food Made Simple   By Thomasina Miers   At Home: A Short History of Private Life   By Bill Bryson   Bank of the Black Sheep   By Robert Lewis   The Num8er My5teries   By Marcus du Sautoy   The Behaviour of Moths   By Poppy Adams   The Murder Room   By P.D. James   The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet   By Reif Larsen   The Lighthouse   By P.D. James   The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid   By Bill Bryson   All My Shows Are Great: The Life of Lew Grade   By Lewis Chester   Eleven Minutes Late   By Matthew Engel   Criminal Records   By Andrew Holmes   Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements   By Hugh Aldersey-Williams   My Father's Fortune: A Life   By Michael Frayn   Farundell   By L. R Fredericks

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