The Road to Little Dribbling

Warm, funny, thoughtful, sometimes grumpy. An absolute joy. + in Country Life: I snorted with laughter…The Road to Little Dribbling is consistently and unendingly fabulous…I intend on buying a copy for everyone I know.

Clare Balding

Stuffed with eye-opening facts and statistics..... Bryson's charm and wit continue to float off the page....Recognising oneself is part of the pleasure of reading Bryson's mostly affable rants about Britain and Britishness.

Daily Mail

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

At last, Bill Bryson has got back to what he does best - penning travel books that educate, inform and will have you laughing out loud...I was chuckling away by page four and soaking up his historic facts to impress my mates with. Sure to be a bestseller.

Sun

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

At its best as the history of a love affair, the very special relationship between Bryson and Britain. We remain lucky to have him.

Financial Times

Is it the funniest travel book I’ve read all year? Of course it is.

Daily Telegraph

We have a tradition in this country of literary teddy bears – John Betjeman and Alan Bennett among them – whose cutting critiques of the absurdities and hypocrisies of the British people are carried out with such wit and good humour that they become national treasures. Bill Bryson is American but is now firmly established in the British teddy bear pantheon…The fact that this wonderful writer can unerringly catalogue all our faults and is still happy to put up with us should make every British reader’s chest swell with pride.

Sunday Express

The truly great thing about Bryson is that he really cares and is insanely curious…Reading his work is like going on holiday with the members of Monty Python.

Chris Taylor, Mashable

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

The observation, the wit, the geniality of Bryson’s inimitable words illuminate ever chapter.

Terry Wogan, Irish Times

Everybody loves Bill Bryson, don’t they? He’s clever, witty, entertaining, a great companion…his research is on show here, producing insight, wisdom and startling nuggets of information…Bill Bryson and his new book are the dog’s bollocks.

Independent on Sunday

His millions of readers will probably enjoy this just as much as its predecessor.

Observer

We go to him less for insights – though there are plenty of these – and more for the pleasure of his company. And he can be very funny indeed. Almost every page has a line worth quoting.

Glasgow Herald

The funniest travel book I’ve read all year, if only for the number of gags per page.

Sunday Telegraph

Bryson is at his best when striking a melancholy tone, wandering yet another Identikit high street despairing at the loss of community and individual character. A delightful read.

The Lady

Bill Bryson is a wonder. Here is a man who can write a page about ordering a cheese sandwich - and make the reader care about the sandwich...the result is a grumpy paean of praise to a place we've grown used to doing down...he reminds the reader what an extraordinary place this island is...He does not mention in his new book that perhaps one of the things that makes his adopted country so remarkable is the willingness of its people to accord the status of Living National Treasure to a fellow from Iowa.

Erica Wagner, New Statesman

He still loves us, indeed he has become one of us. The prologue on the idiocy of the citizenship test is worth the cover price alone.

Sunday Times Books of the Year

Mr Bryson is an entertaining travel companion with a keen eye for the absurd . . . He writes lyrically on the monuments at Stonehenge and Avebury. He is great on the joy of walking through the English countryside, bemoaning the loss of hedgerows, fields and 'verges full of nodding flowers and birdsong'.

Wall Street Journal

The sheer number of gags per page make it an assault on the funny bone.

Daily Telegraph