Bill Bryson's "Notes from a Big Country" is a collection of columns he wrote for the Mail on Sunday after returning two the US following 20-odd years of living in the UK. It's frequently funny, well-written and always astutely observed. He seems to have mellowed a bit, too, since "the lost continent, which was really rather unkind to Iowa, where he grew up […].

Picked up from SG at the Ipswich meet-up.
Mr Bryson has now returned to the UK - a comment on the state of his homeland, perhaps? He is an august commissioner of English Heritage, amongst other things. As he follows on from Loyd Grossman is he the token ethnic minority?

I enjoyed dipping into this as Bryson records the eccentricities and frustrations of life in the USA.

RELEASE NOTES:

To be released at the meeting tomorrow at the Caffe Nero OBCZ

Am a fan of BB, and both MrsDanvers and SemioticGhost both recommended it at the meetup.

Left by the sugar, etc. Baker Street / George Street bank.