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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
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
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this much anticipated addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and sc ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
44.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This exquisitely illustrated and updated 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. Includes exclusive audio of Shakespeare's sonnets, read by Sir John ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World As A Stage (Illustrated) by Bill Bryson
37.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
25.99 NZD
Category: Science | 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 Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
75.00 NZD
Category: Science
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 Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Bryson
"Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything w ...Show more
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
55.00 NZD
59.99 (8% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Mo ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
21.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
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 Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | 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 Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | 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 NZD
50.00 (20% off)
Category: Travel Writing | 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