Bill Bryson is visibly startled to see himself back. “Oh my god, I’m in a cave,” he says, grinning at the bearded face emerging from the gloom of his home office in Hampshire. A desk plaque in the ...

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Remember what it was like to be awestruck by ants? Author Bill Bryson urges us to hold on to that childlike sense of wonder for the world. He spoke with The Sunday Magazine about updating his hit 2003 ...