. Notes from a Small Island: Bill Bryson’s humour comes alive in this memoir from his stay in Britain, through Dover, all the way into John O’Groats. He writes about little differences and preferences that separate the British way of living from the American — the ability of British locals to get excited by hot beverages, the English distances, open moors of the north, guesthouses, the small pleasures in puddings, cake, seaside rock, milky tea, and HP sauce. Although some of Bryson’s ideas are of an older time, one stays back for the English quirks and charm.  
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