The Attic Covers things such as Charles Darwin, and the fact John Lubbock was his neighbour. John Lubbock became a M.P. and got the Bank Holiday Act introduced. Reception The review in The Guardian noted that the book is not really about home, but a venue for Bryson to present each of a series of historical events as a "well-turned story, a mildly humorous aside, a colourful anecdote". Historian Judith Flanders said that "occasionally the book seems to have better jokes than it does a sense of history" but still called the book a "treasure". Another reviewer noted that one with "any interest in furniture, food, fashion, architecture, energy or world history ... (will have) stumbled across some (or all) of the information Bryson has on offer (because) countless books have been written on every subject covered in At Home; many are credited in the ample bibliography". References 2010 non-fiction books Books by Bill Bryson Doubleday (publisher) books