A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0

This most enjoyable of books ... A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide.

The Times

Bill Bryson has an unmatched gift for explaining the most difficult subjects in the clearest possible way.

Mail on Sunday

Mr Bryson has a natural gift for clear and vivid expression. I doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written.

Telegraph

A fascinating idea, and I can't think of many writers, other than Bryson, who would do it this well. It's the sort of book I would have devoured as a teenager. It might well turn unsuspecting young readers into scientists.

Evening Standard

A genuinely useful and readable book. There is a phenomenal amount of fascinating information packed between its covers ... A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world around them in the same way again

Daily Express

The very book I have been looking for most of my life... Bryson wears his knowledge with aplomb and a lot of very good jokes.

Daily Mail

Of course, there are people much better qualified than Bill Bryson to attempt a project of this magnitude. None of them, however, can write fluent Brysonese, which, as pretty much the entire Western reading public now knows, is an appealing mixture of self-deprecation, wryness and punnery.

The Spectator

Lucid, thoughtful and, above all, entertaining.

The Scotsman