Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet: into his own childhood in America's Mid-West. Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In his very funny new memoir, he...

The extraordinary Bill Bryson takes us from the Big Bang to the dawn of science in this book about basically everything.Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something?Or thought about how we can weigh the earth?Or wanted to reach the...