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Shakespeare: The World As A Stage (Illustrated) by Bill Bryson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This exquisitely illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling journey through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare pairs the most celebrated playwri ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Eminent Lives
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
The Body - A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From the author of the science classic A Short History of Nearly Everything, and one of the bestselling and most beloved nonfiction writers in the English language, a tour de force excursion in and around the human body -- how it works in all of its glorious complexity and how it inevitably fails to do ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
The Body - A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functi ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. "The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman."-- "New York" magazine
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Bryson
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the ki ...Show more
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Provides a humorous history of the English language covering such topics as spelling, pronunciation, swearing, and wordplay.
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Bryson Ser.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation?s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC ...Show more
The Road to Little Dribbling - More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nationâe(tm)s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also voted in ...Show more
Troublesome Words (PB) by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Criticism
What's the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson offers a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage that has been an indispensable companion to t ...Show more