Before he became one of the richest, most powerful and most influential men on Earth, Bill Gates was a difficult child. At home in Seattle, he constantly misbehaved; he went through days-long bouts of ...

It takes me a month to mentally prepare to drive through the High Plains and a week to recover. The only ties I have left are ...

Some journeys take us across physical landscapes and others, across internal ones. The Lost Continent details author Bill ...

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Author Bill Bryson will chair this year’s judging panel, selecting the overall Nero Gold Prize for Book of the Year 2024. The 2023 inaugural winner was The Bee Sting by Irish author Paul Murray ...

A final judging panel, chaired by writer Bill Bryson, will select the overall winner, who will receive an additional £30,000 prize. Organisers said: "Together, the books represent high-quality ...

The reduced opening hours at the Bill Bryson Library means that Durham University’s main library has the shortest opening hours out of all the Russell Group longest-opening libraries. The Teaching & ...

This isn’t so much a book about the early days of computing software as a lament to a bygone America: it’s as filled with nostalgia as Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie or Bill Bryson’s The ...

Eric Carmen recorded 'Hungry Eyes' reluctantly, battled with Clive Davis over a comeback record, and more we learned about the late pop singer.

There’s no better feeling than when a customer comes back and lets you know they really enjoyed the book you recommended to ...