Publisher: Puffin
Published: 1987
Type: BOOK
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2013-05-07
Type: BOOK
Precise, prescriptive, sometimes (like its author) amusingly prickly, this book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about our language not to maul or misuse or distort it. Move over, Strunk and White.
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2011-06-22
Type: BOOK
As Bill Bryson notes, “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense.” This dictionary is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered ...
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2006-10-17
Type: BOOK
Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.
The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 1984
Type: BOOK
A Walk in the Woods
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2012-05-15
Type: BOOK
An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
The Mother Tongue
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-06-02
Type: BOOK
“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of ...
Icons of England
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-04-07
Type: BOOK
First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded paperback edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks ...
Troublesome Words
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-06-02
Type: BOOK
So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day', this superb book is the place to find ...
Made in America
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1996-03-01
Type: BOOK
Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and ...
