Little Dribbling

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson. Of course a good read doesn't have to be a novel. In the right hands facts and statistics can be a pleasure to read. It just requires an enquiring mind, an eye for detail and the feeling that you have just parachuted in from an alien planet. That is the secret of good travel writing but the impressive breadth of Bryson's approach works just as well for language, science and that particularly troublesome travel companion The Body.