What I'm reading ...

I am just about to start At Home by Bill Bryson. I have read some reviews and heard him discussing it on the radio this afternoon. The book is sub-titled "A short history of private life", which sums it up well. His goal is to write about social history from the perspective of how we use each of the rooms of our houses.

I have been a fan of Bryson's since I heard one of his early books serialized on the radio in the early 1990s. I believe that I have read all his books and I have met him a couple of times - once at a book signing, but earlier at a recording of the Bookclub radio programme. He is about the only author whose books I pre-order, unseen, in hardback when they are first announced. I am looking forward to diving into this one.