Reading his work is like going on holiday with the members of Monty Python.' -Chris Taylor, Mashable 'There were moments when I snorted out loud with laughter while reading this book in public. The fact that this wonderful writer can unerringly catalogue all our faults and is still happy to put up with us should make every British reader's chest swell with pride.' -Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express 'The truly great thing about Bryson is that he really cares and is insanely curious. Bill Bryson is American but is now firmly established in the British teddy bear pantheon. We remain lucky to have him.' -Matthew Engel, Financial Times 'Is it the funniest travel book I've read all year? Of course it is.' -Daily Telegraph 'We have a tradition in this country of literary teddy bears-John Betjeman and Alan Bennett among them-whose cutting critiques of the absurdities and hypocrisies of the British people are carried out with such wit and good humour that they become national treasures. Praise for The Road to Little Dribbling : 'Fans should expect to chuckle, snort, snigger, grunt, laugh out loud and shake with recognition.a clotted cream and homemade jam scone of a treat.' -Sunday Times 'At its best as the history of a love affair, the very special relationship between Bryson and Britain. The Road to Little Dribbling reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative-and a really, really funny guy. Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road-and on a tear. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today. Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed-and what hasn't.

The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. A loving and hilarious-if occasionally spiky-valentine to Bill Bryson's adopted country, Great Britain.

Road to little dribbling