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1.		The Uncommon Reader from Profile Books Ltd Price: £3.86 Customer Review: A very humorous and entertaining story about the Queen and one of her servants revolving around the Queen's growing addiction to English literature. Although the situation is preposterous, Bennett has a way of drawing one into the story and it starts to seem plausible. Alan Bennett made... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Troublesome Words from Penguin Price: £6.69 Customer Review: Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words may have been useful twenty-five years ago, when it was first published, but it has become redundant. Most entries clarify word spellings and meanings, which a normal dictionary does just as well (with the advantage that it lists all words, not an arbitrary... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge) from Black Swan Price: £3.86 Customer Review: Though it claims to be witty, I'm afraid I can't add to the glowing reports of this book. This is not to say that it is an awful book, merely that I found it hard to engage with the style of John O'Farrell. The reading is light and is a good a book to snuggle up in bed with as any, but I... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Mother Tongue: The English Language from Penguin Price: £6.69 Customer Review: I liked this book. It is written with Bryson's usual witty and engaging style. It is a book that is absolutely of the high standard any reader of Bryson's previous books will have come to expect. Having said that, this book is certainly not for everyone, even if you have thoroughly enjoyed many... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Bill Bryson African Diary from Doubleday Price: £6.99 Customer Review: The phrase short and sweet popped into my mind about this 49 page little book about Bill Bryson's 8 days in Kenya. It is actually a bitter sweet account about the work of the charity organization CARE one of the worlds leading international organizations fighting against poverty. They believe that... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		A Short History of Nearly Everything from Black Swan Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I read this book whilst on a round the world trip and it was a great companion, although it does take some reading! I ordered a copy from Amazon for my father in law as a christmas present, but thought i would get the hardback version called 'a really short history of nearly everything'... a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe from Black Swan Price: £6.94 Customer Review: Needing to clear some space on my bookshelves I have decided to reacquaint myself with Bill Bryson's travel books before Bookcrossing them. This one was written in 1990, first published in 1992 and the edition on my bookshelf in 1998. I enjoyed reading this travelogue of his tour of some of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid from Black Swan Price: £4.90 Customer Review: Bill Bryson's first book "The Lost Continent" starts with the line "I came from Des Moines, Iowa. Somebody had to." We now get the slightly exaggerated childhood and adolescence of Bill Bryson, aka The Thunderbolt Kid (in his own mind anyway) in Des Moines in the 1950s, when life in the USA for the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street from Penguin Price: £5.39 Customer Review: Charles Nicholl's books about Marlowe and da Vinci have previously graced my reading list: the first is a meticulous reconstruction of Marlowe's final meal in an attempt to explain the playwright's death, which is sometimes a little repetitive; the second a more conventional biography of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Shakespeare's Wife from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £5.39 Customer Review: Where here the blunt Aussie frankness that Germaine Greer has celebrated and been respected for all of her life? When writing history, it is sometimes almost acceptable to now and then fill in gaps by positing things to make sense of an action, but this disingenuous offering is the worst... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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