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The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island Audio CD – Unabridged, 8 October 2015
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Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never get to at all, Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly unique country that he thought he knew but doesn't altogether recognize any more. Yet, despite Britain's occasional failings and more or less eternal bewilderments, Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home. And not just because of the cream teas, a noble history, and an extra day off at Christmas.
Once again, with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing, the ridiculous and the scandalous, Bryson gives us an acute and perceptive insight into all that is best and worst about Britain today.
Music written and performed by Richard Digance, inspired by The Road to Little Dribbling
- Print length1 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAUDIO RH UK - MASS MARKET
- Publication date8 October 2015
- Dimensions13.8 x 2.4 x 14.1 cm
- ISBN-101846574412
- ISBN-13978-1846574412
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Warm, funny, thoughtful, sometimes grumpy. An absolute joy.
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I snorted with laughter…The Road to Little Dribbling is consistently and unendingly fabulous…I intend on buying a copy for everyone I know.
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
Is it the funniest travel book I’ve read all year? Of course it is. ― Daily Telegraph
There were moments when I snorted out loud with laughter while reading this book in public…He can be as gloriously silly as ever. ― The Times
Bryson has no equal. He combines the charm and humour of Michael Palin with the cantankerousness of Victor Meldrew and the result is a benign intolerance that makes for a gloriously funny read. ― Daily Express
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Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.
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- Publisher : AUDIO RH UK - MASS MARKET; 1st edition (8 October 2015)
- Language : English
- Audio CD : 1 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1846574412
- ISBN-13 : 978-1846574412
- Dimensions : 13.8 x 2.4 x 14.1 cm
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About the author

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for the Times and the Independent, and wrote for most major British and American publications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here Nor There; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and books on language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). His account of his attempts to walk the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, was a huge New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and his four children.
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He starts off, almost on the first page, by stating what appears to be a pre-emptive get-out clause for his carping and negative attitude throughout the book: I Am Getting Old. At just five years younger than Bill, I was at first surprised by this claim - it would never have occurred to me to use my ‘advancing’ years as a justification for being smart-alecky and sarcastic to underpaid and overworked members of the service industry, who are of course not permitted to answer back - then I became irritated by his frequent variations on this ‘oldy’ theme. However, as the book went on, it did start to read more and more like the tedious and repetitive ramblings of someone in their early anecdotage. Stories told in other books were rehashed in slightly different words (once again we are told that the British have the ability to derive happiness from trivial things, especially a cup of tea and a biscuit, and that old people love eating from Tupperware containers on trains), and a very limited armoury of axes were thoroughly and repeatedly ground:
This town/village used to have a butcher’s, a bookshop and a post office in its high street, but they’re gone now, so f*** it
I would have had this bus/tube compartment/ferry all to myself if it wasn’t for those pesky and idiotic fellow-passengers, so f*** them
This view was lovely/agreeable, largely because I had it all to myself. Or it was spoiled because other people were selfish and inconsiderate enough to be there at the same time as I was, so f*** them
All local authorities, councils and governments are unbelievably stupid, irresponsible and destructive, so – well, you get the idea…
And what on earth is his problem with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography? Was his publishing company planning a rival product and had asked him to rubbish the competition to increase their sales?
I won’t even bother getting into his attitude to Scotland and the Scots in this book, but sadly, it seems that while Bryson has finally achieved his lifelong ambition of becoming an Official British Citizen, it is as the worst kind of stereotype: the comfortably well-off but nevertheless permanently discontented Englishman who likes nothing better than a good moan, snipe, or full-on rant about anything that mildly inconveniences or annoys him. Or is north of the border.
Sorry Bill, I won’t be buying you a pint in your local any time soon.


I haven't done yet, but I know I will.
Years ago, Bill Bryson captured my reader's heart with 'Notes from a Small Island.' This sequel did not disappoint. Yes, he is a little more curmudgeonly now, but he's older so I wouldn't expect him to sound naively optimistic.
He makes astute observations across so many aspects of British life, often hitting the nail on the head regarding the likes of HS2, Butlins, Blackpool, BT and litter. And he does it so well. His writing is easy to read, entertaining, amusing, interesting and shows him to be interested in the world around him.
Bryson fans will not be disappointed.


"[T]he man behind the bar made a grave face. 'It's going to be at least an hour. We're a bit stretched tonight.'
'But there's nobody here,' I said with a hint of sputter.
The barman nodded grimly toward the kitchen. 'Chef's on his own out there,' he said as if he were crawling on his belly through enemy fire."
Along the way, he also muses on the essence of the UK (as seen through an American's eyes), which he describes as fair play, reasonableness, eccentricity, packed with history and staggeringly beautiful (at least as regards its countryside). As for the British character, he thinks we are the "the only people in the world who become genuinely enlivened when presented with a hot beverage and a small plain biscuit" [p472]. Nice.