Ed: Paul Gough The Great War correspondence between Stanley Spencer and Desmond Chute 
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A Dictionary of Bristle

Blige the first edition was big, but the second one is quite simply gurt macky! That's right, the world-renowned Bristolian dictionary is now bigger and better than ever.

Old Bristle Almanac
 
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Following the tremendous popularity and success of the first edition, Harry Stoke and Vinny Green have got together from beyond the grave to compile a bumper new second edition, with over 100 new entries, a new phrases section and a How Bristle Are you? Q 
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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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One of the big questions surrounding a radical educational establishment like Summerhill is whether parents might be limiting their children's prospects by sending them to a school where the child is not forced to learn. 
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Interweaving letters from the front with stories from home, this book describes the Great War’s impact on Bath. With minor variations, it could be the story of many British towns as they lived through the time when all roads led to France. 
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This book is about a body of painters who have generally been marginalised by British art historians – the Polish exiles from war and persecution who made their homes and careers in Britain before or after 1939. It takes ten of them, explores their origi 
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This tells how Britain’s first pleasure resort coped with our ancestors’ relentless desire to drink more than was good for them. From the Gin Epidemic to the Beerhouse Boom, from the Cider Rebellion to the Drunken Election – Awash with Ale tells the story 
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A collection of ghost stories and mysteries from Brislington and the neighbourhoods of Arno's Vale, Broomhill and St Anne's. 
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100 beautiful paintings, with essay and commentaries, showing how Bristol looked in the decade before the coming of photography. From the celebrated collection in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. 
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A rich and comprehensive history of Bristol's famous (and less well-known) sons and daughters. Bristol has plenty to be proud of when it comes to famous people. Some were born in the city while others were drawn to it by its colourful heritage, advent 
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Perhaps the most famous and best loved pirate book of all is Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, dominated by the charismatic and terrifyingly unforgettable pirate, Long John Silver, and set against a backdrop of eighteenth century Bristol. 
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Bristol's experience in the front line of World War Two could not match the sufferings of Leningrad under siege. But Bristolians could empathise with the inhabitants of the great Russian city, for Bristol itself was effectively under siege from persi 
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This collection contains some of Llewelyn Powys's finest country essays. In his introduction, Philip Larkin wrote: 'To open almost any of his books is to find him talking, in an extraordinary blend of modern English with Urquhart and Thomas Delo 
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Powys's first Africa book, the Ebony chapters being based on the young Englishman's response to the Dark Continent. An uncompromising honesty required Powys to portray brutalities than even today shock with their callousness. 
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Bristol resident Paul Hatch provides a fascinating study of Bristol’s folk history. Many of the stories appear in print for the first time, carefully distilled from oral and written history and now retold 
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In the summer of 2007, Lin Sheffrin was diagnosed with a cancer which quickly invaded her liver. "Fifty/50 – A Memoir" is her brave story. 
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Close on 225 years after his supposed death by suicide, Bristol's boy-poet Thomas Chatterton remains a fascinating and controversial figure. This challenging collection of essays questions long-held assumptions about Chatterton's life and offers  
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Get the Presentation X-Factor! is a must-read for anyone wanting to present themselves with confidence and flair in any situation, business or social. Easy to use. Fun to read. Accessible and above all extremely useful. 
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A biography of Joseph Cottle of Bristol, best known as the publisher of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Publisher, editor and author, he was, effectively, the first to publish the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Southey and Charles Lamb. 
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