A biography of Dod Procter who, for a period in the 1920s, was perhaps the most famous artist in Britain. 
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In this sumptuously illustrated book, Andrea Leeman introduces some of the finest food and drink produced in Devon, and profiles 24 producers. 20 mouth-watering recipes accompany the profiles of the producers. These range from dishes based on fish, lamb, beef and pork to vegetables, and special scones. 
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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 origins, their often hazardous escape from occupied Europe, their reception and the development of their work.  
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In Bristol New Perspectives Jamie Koster turns the familiar into something exotic. With his keen photographer’s eye, careful selection and some artifice, he shows us a Bristol we haven’t noticed before.  
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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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British pantomime, a blend of commedia dell’arte and vaudeville-style performance, uses cross-dressing, familiar children’s stories such as Cinderella, and shouts from the audience as the basis for its matchless theatrical spectacle. Millie Taylor’s British Pantomime Performance explores how pantomime creates an interactive relationship with—and potentially transformative experience for—its audiences.  
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A collection of poetry by Brian Earnshaw 
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The fascinating history of the attempts to span the Avon Gorge with a new bridge, culminating in the building of Bristol's most famous landmark by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Packed with information and beautiful colour illustrations and diagrams. 
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Photographer Roger Manthorp lives in Hotwells and, in his regular walks around his ‘patch’, has seen the Cumberland Basin in all its moods. The result: nearly 50 elegant photograph studies showing the dock-side, its artefacts redolent of a long maritime history, with strange sculptural qualities and Henry Moore-ish shapes; rusting iron-work; the murky eddies of swirling water, and the strange beauty of Avon mud.  
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Mark Browning explores to what extent Cronenberg’s films are inspired and shaped by literary fiction, and delves into the ever-present relationship between the big screen and the written word. Over the last three decades, the director David Cronenberg has drawn upon and adapted themes prominent in works of literature by William Burroughs and J.G. Ballard in his movies to surprising and often shocking effect. Browning investigates this at a deeper level, examining Cronenberg’s films such as Scan 
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