July Highlights
News and events from Bristol Books this July
20% OFF DAYS OUT GUIDEBOOK
Find inspiration for your summer staycation
This July we are offering a special 20% discount off the Days Out guidebook when you use the code DAYSOUT20 (valid until July 31, 2026).
This book is packed with ideas for great days out within around an hour or so’s drive, with suggestions to suit your mood, schedule and starting point. From the Mendip Hills and Somerset Levels, to South Wales, the southern Cotswolds, the Coast and its resorts. Quirky facts and background information provide context, while divided into micro-regions, maps provide orientation. This guide will help you explore what is on the doorstep or to venture further afield along paths less travelled.
Q&A with A Very Small Bookshop
How do you fit a bookshop into a shipping container? We speak to Leah, owner of A Very Small Bookshop to find out what inspired her to open a bookshop and how she chooses what books to stock…
Publishing for John Wesley’s New Room
Bristol Books have partnered with John Wesley’s New Room to help re-publish Thoughts Upon Slavery, an important historical pamphlet by John Wesley.
The publication, which was previously out-of-print, contains the text of one of several influential Tracts with which social reformers of the 18th Century achieved an end to the slave trade.
Copies are available to purchase from the New Room shop in Broadmead.
PICTURE THIS… Ashton Court Festival programme (1983)
The one-day event in 1983, billed as ‘the biggest and best street fair in the West…’ was an impressive showcase for Bristol music and performance art. Bands included Startled Insects, Crazy Trains, Blurt, the Untouchables, Restriction, Black Roots and Maximum Joy.
Image from Bristol Music: Sounds Of The City by Richard Jones (published by Bristol Books and Tangent Books). An essential guide to Bristol music with a timeline of the key moments in the city’s music history from 1955 to the present day.