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Best-selling non-fiction writer Bill Bryson turns to fiction for enjoyment
The Straits Times
|November 16, 2025
Who: Bestselling American-British journalist and author Bill Bryson, 73, has written 21 nonfiction books, including the popular science title A Short History Of Nearly Everything (2003) and Notes From A Small Island (1995), a humorous travelogue of Britain.
On Feb 4 and 5, Bryson will take the Singapore stage in an entertaining evening that covers his latest rewrite of his popular science book A Short History Of Nearly Everything 2.0 (2025), tales of his travels and the business of being a writer.
Bryson, who has only briefly visited Singapore in the past, says he will skip the shopping and head for the Singapore Botanic Gardens instead.
“I read more than I can tell you in a whole day because, of course, I’m not a scientist — so I’ve had to read an awful lot to learn. I was kind of shocked to discover, after I started writing A Short History Of Nearly Everything, that there were many brilliant popular science books written by different writers.
This story is from the November 16, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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