The release date for the English version of 'Notes from a Small Island' by
Bill Bryson is May 1997. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."
Bill Bryson, the best-selling author of Made in America and The Mother Tongue, made the decision to go back to the United States after living in Britain for over twenty years. ( "I had recently read," says Bryson, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me." ) But first he made a great tour of the friendly and verdant island that had been his home for so long before leaving.
Notes from a Small Island is a charmingly humorous tour of the unique floating country that gave birth to Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, zebra crossings, and locations with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. It veers from the ridiculous to the charming and back again. The outcome is a riotous social satire, written by an unrepentant Anglophile, that captures the genuine grandeur of Britain.