“At Home” by Bill Bryson (2010)

“Some time after we moved into a former Church of England rectory in a village of tranquil anonymity in Norfolk, I had occasion to go up into the attaci to look for the source of a slow but mysterious drip.”

Bill Bryson had just finished writing A Short History of Nearly Everything, when he had cause to go into his attic, as mentioned in the above quote. I’ve read that book and it’s an outstanding introduction to pretty much every concept in physics, chemistry and biology that you could ever nee...