BILL BRYSON Speaking at The Cambridge Union Society on Monday 12th November, 7.30pm The UK's biggest selling non-fiction author since records began, Bill Bryson's notoriously inquisitive mind has spawned a string of bestsellers covering topics from travel to the English language, Shakespeare to science. his most popular works include 'Down under', a tale of his exploits in Australia, 'The Lost Continent', exploring small-town America in his mother's Chevy, and the Aventis Prize-winning 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'. An Anglophile at heart, he was the 11th Chancellor of Durham University and is President of the campaign to Protect Rural England.

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