News, events and new titles from Bristol Books this April
Remembering Bristol’s greatest gigs
It is time to step back in time and remember the golden age of rock with an exciting new book The West’s Greatest Rock Shows 1963-1978.
You can now pre-order this brand-new book written by local reviewer and critic Robin Askew, so that you can be among the first to read it. We expect to be posting out pre-orders on Monday April 15.
If you ever went to a gig at The Granary or the Colston Hall this is a book for you as it tells lost, forgotten and previously untold eye-opening tales from the gigs you will wish you’d seen.
The West Country might not have a place in rock history to match that of London or Liverpool, but some incredible shows took place here, including the UK’s first outdoor pop riots and key performances by many of the greats.
Launch event: Waterstones, The Galleries on Thursday May 2, 7pm
Tickets are available now for the official launch event of The West’s Greatest Rock Shows 1963-1978. Hear from author, Robin Askew, in a Q&A session at Waterstones, The Galleries on Thursday May 2 at 7pm.
An Easter selection box of Bristol Miscellany
If you bought Manson’s Bristol Miscellany but haven’t yet got volume two then Easter is the perfect time to dip into this box of treats – and it is less fattening than chocolate!
Volume Two of Manson’s Bristol Miscellany includes:
Getting around: roads, ferries, trams, trains, planes and bridges.
Webs of communication: newspapers and telecommunications.
Earth, wind and flood: weather extremes, floods and earthquakes.
Realists and romantics: a new poetic movement, literary and cultural connections.
A roof over your head: almshouses, workhouses, orphanages and social housing.
Buildings of Bristol: bricks and stones, grand houses, town squares, windmills and post war reconstruction.
And so much more…
Another round of Thatchers
Due to demand we are re-printing the fabulous hardback book on the history of Thatcher’s Cider so pop into the Thatcher’s Cider Shop at Myrtle Farm, Sandford to pick up a copy – or order through our website here.
Written by James Russell and superbly illustrated with photographs by Neil Phillips, Thatchers: Then & Now is the official history of Thatcher’s Cider.
There have been Thatchers in northern Somerset since at least 1806 and we know that by 1878 Benjamin Thatcher of Upper Langford was advertising his Prime new cider at 30 shillings per hogshead.
James Russell traces the history of Thatchers cidermaking from those beginnings to the present day. The modern generation of Thatchers have established themselves as leading family cidermakers with a reputation for producing a wide range of ciders of the highest quality and for breaking new ground in the development of orchards while caring for the land that produces the finest cider apples in the world.
