August 08: ‘Celebrities choose their iconic British countryside views’

‘Bryson on untidy Brits’ – Bill Bryson has made a programme for Panorama to try to get Great Britain to clean up its act

‘Notes on a dirty island’ – Bill Bryson explains why he was moved to film Panorama programme on litter

Bill Bryson Says Stop The Drop - As President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Bill Bryson today (16th April 2008) launched Stop the Drop, the charity’s major campaign against the growing blight of litter and fly-tipping in England’s countryside. Discuss in the forum.

Random House Children's Books will publish a children's version of A Short History of Nearly Everything, with full colour illustrations throughout, in autumn 2008.

Bill Bryson launches St Martin appeal

Bill Bryson is appointed President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England

More than 12 years after it was first published, Notes From a Small Island is still the second-best-selling travel book in this country.

Bill Bryson's memoir of his childhood in the Mid-west, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, is out now in paperback and is already a number one Sunday Times bestseller!

The City of Des Moines announces "The Thunderbolt Kid" Day and gives Bill Bryson a key to the city. Click here to download the official proclamation.

The South Bank Show on 10th September 2006 was a Bill Bryson special edition

Bill Bryson podcasts available via Guardian Unlimited

Bill Bryson interviewed by the Guardian

Have you seen our unique new Thunderbolt Kid vidlit!

Winners of Bill Bryson Science Communication Prize announced

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is printed on paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council

Bill Bryson in conversation with Tony Blair at No.10 Downing Street