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The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island

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Nathan Osgood

13 Hours 56 Minutes

Penguin Books LTD

October 2015

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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 best-selling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain. Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey around Britain to see what has changed.

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.

Download includes accompanying PDF map of the Bryson Line

Music written and performed by Richard Digance, inspired by The Road to Little Dribbling

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  • Jason H.

    just love bill by son book yet another great read

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  • James G.

    An enlightening and chiefly positive journey between places worth seeing (and a few not to bother with) around the British mainland, what makes Britain Britain, and the British people British. Observative but personal, with occasional sudden injections of humour; dryly yet warmly narrated. A great listen when going to bed, though you may find yourself wanting to make notes of places to visit!

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  • Grete-Kristin H.

    Very entertaining and I could hear Bryson in the voice of the narrator. I laughed out loud several times and I learned a Lot!

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