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A superb read with a main character destined to be one of the most talked about in crime fiction

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Bill Bryson: Notes From A Big Country [2016] paperback FILMS Veruca Salt - a spoiledBill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of