Bill Bryson

Now available on audio, the complete unabridged 14-cd box read by the author is at the very special price of £17.49 - saving 30% over the mrrp.

At Home is an inward look at life through a domestic telescope. Because, as Bill Bryson says, our homes aren't refuges from history… they are where history begins and ends.

It struck Bryson that history really consists of centuries upon centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. So he began a room by room journey around his house - an old rectory in Norfolk - considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.

Along the way he allowed himself delightful digressions on the history of everything from architecture to epidemics, from food preservation to the discovery of electricity, and from crinolines to the WC.

14-cd box read by Bill Bryson, price of £17.49 saves £7.50 over mrrp of £25.00.

Born 1951 in the middle of the United States in Des Moines, Iowa, Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood. Here, he recreates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality. Warm and laugh-out-loud funny,