There seemed only two choices: wide plains to the horizon or dense forests up to the rails. Such dullness doped the brain, exposing the unwary traveller to one of those surprises this mysterious country liked to spring...  
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An epic tale of Boxing, Bordellos and Bristol pluck told in verse and set in the late 18th Century. “Genious, extraordinary, brilliantly-observed, uproarious and touching.” Mark Wallis, Historian. “Hopefully a future British screen writer. Very funny v 
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An anthology of 20 superb short stories from all over the world, which were winners in the inaugural Bristol Short Story Prize, awarded in June 2008. 
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The stand-out stories from the 2009 Bristol Short Story Prize demonstrate the infinite possibilities short fiction offers in a vibrant collection brimming with fresh styles and unique voices.  
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‘Every divorcing woman should read this book’

In this fourth book of the author, the talented heroine of the ‘Shades’ trilogy, jilted by the man she is devoted to, marries the wrong one on the rebound. A dramatic tale of Sixties changing societ 
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From the mind of author Robert Wallace and the lens of photographer Adrian Ford comes a book that may well haunt you to the grave.  
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Jane, the beautiful daughter of the heroine, Anne, of the previous four books, sets off with Germano to fulfil his boyhood dream of having a restaurant in the ecological paradise of Costa Rica. After many setbacks the two young lovers build their restaura 
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Paul Calvert returns to England from Australia, his engagement broken, his career wrecked. He seeks a new life in a quiet Dorset village. But he witnesses a savage mugging by young thugs, and in saving the victim makes enemies of the muggers.  
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In addition to original poems by Chris Hamlett, this anthology contains translations of odes by Horace, an extract from the Odyssey and a simple but profound epigram by Callimachus. The anthology is illustrated by 25 black & white photographs, the major 
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Tony Rowlands is devastated by being made redundant well before his normal retirement age. Tony's attempt to keep the news from his wife, Mary, in the ancient town of Rye - where everybody knows everybody's business - 
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Anne, returns to ‘Swinging’ London and Bristol, to await the escape of Jack, her artist lover from the USA, where the Internal Revenue is seeking his arrest for art fraud. Her life is filled with colourful characters and friends as she enjoys the delights 
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Anne, waiting three years for her Immigrant’s Visa, sails on the ‘Queen Elizabeth’ to New York with Jack, her artist lover. He had returned from America to recover the paintings of famous artists from the Paris bank vault, where Anne deposited them, prior 
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Anne, a Nurse from Bristol, sacrifices a secure profession to follow her childhood dreams to become an artist.
Travelling to Fifties Paris she escapes a domineering mother and an arduous nursing career, to find a world filled with romance and rich hum 
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When I was a lad... my heroes were not those of my peers. No. I'm talking about real heroes. Where my friends had pictures of the great footballers on their bedroom walls - I had my collection of shrapnel in a drawer. Cannon shell cases from German air 
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How well do you know someone? What if the person you loved and thought you knew suddenly turned into a different person.... 
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Published by Herbert Adler.
. The Ruling Passion.
. Chosen for BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime. 27 October – 7th November 2008.  
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A futuristic satire about a robot who taught the world to be human.
Thinkbot is the world’s first sentient robot – a thinking, feeling, spiritual, compassionate, human-like being in a tin can. The world into which Thinkbot emerges is one of advanced  
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The Tilde Slash series of SF novels are set in 2029, in a dystopian future Bristol. The first book, This One’s a Lemon, was published in September 2008. It begins the adventures of our heroine, the ex-bodyguard turned hacker Tilde Slash and her unsuitab 
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Mike Manson's extremely witty and beautifully written first novel is set against the background of dole culture in Bristol during the long, hot summer of 1976. "The Office meets Life on Mars" -Wessex Muse Magazine.  
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