If anyone can make you feel at home in the pages of a book, it's Bill Bryson. In 'At Home' he examines the little things around the house we take for granted. He takes us with a microscope into a world that is both familiar and unknown, applying his trademark wit and masterful storytelling to topics such as architecture, toilets, crinolines and mousetraps...

"Mice are not easy creatures to figure. There is for a start their remarkable gullibility. When you consider how easily they are taught to find their way around mazes and other complex environments in labs, it is surprising that nowhere have they grasped that a dab of peanut butter on a wooden platform is a temptation worth resisting."