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Grab your umbrella and join best-selling author Bill Bryson for a grand tour through the heartland of the United Kingdom.

"Are you afraid of things that go bump in the night? Do you think someone is watching you even though no one is there? Do doors and windows open and close on their own?

As a reporter for a weekly newspaper on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Vernon Oickle became increasingly aware of the expansion of the drug trade in the region.

Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums.

Bill Bryson had imagined Australia as a kind of alternative southern California. Of course, what greeted him was something rather different.