![]() Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore review: 'enthralling' In a chapter on the Peak District there’s a cracker about the dumb faithfulness of the British dog. ![]() There are lame ones and good ones, but they generally get better as the book goes on. ![]() Is it the funniest travel book I’ve read all year? Of course it is, if only because there are so many gags per page. A week before publication, The Road to Little Dribbling was ranked by a certain online retailer at number five in “Books” and number one in “Travel Books”, while still only available to “pre-order” – not a phrase of which the author, a stickler for correct usage, is likely to approve. But, as his publisher reminded him, it’s 20 years since he wrote that: “ ‘Ever thought about a sequel?’ His tone was casual, but in his eyes I could see little glinting pound signs where his irises normally were.”ġ1 things you didn't know about the Brontës Notes from a Small Island, his 1995 voyage around Britain, was the most successful travel book ever, with 2.5 million copies sold to date. ![]() Every book he writes, whether on the English language or popular science or travel, is a bestseller. In case you’ve somehow missed him, Bill Bryson is the American-born author the British have licensed to poke fun at them. ![]()
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