It’s the cherry on top of one of Bristol’s most spirited spots – where jolly, jeering street drinkers rock beneath crumbling walls sporting Banksy originals; afternoon gig-goers spill out onto pavements from cafes-cum-gig venues to puff on their rollies; the spitting hiss of vats and vats of boiling oil sizzles from rows of red-topped takeaways [...]
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Discovery of the Week: Here Gallery and Bookshop
Posted in Bookshops, Discovery of the Week, Profile, Shops, tagged art, Bristol, Here Gallery and Bookshop, indie on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Discovery of the Week: Bloom & Curll
Posted in Bookshops, Discovery of the Week, Profile, Second-hand, Shops, Talks/Readings on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Richard of The Mighty Miniature fame was last week kind enough to point me in the direction of his friend Jason. Jason runs Bloom & Curll. And look at it. Just look at it. Want to go in? Me too. And Bloom & Curll is more than just new and second-hand books, plates of cake [...]
Discovery of the Week: The Mighty Miniature
Posted in Bookshops, Discovery of the Week, Second-hand, Shops, Treasured tomes, tagged Book stall, first editions, indie, Second-hand, The Mighty Miniature on June 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Found: brilliant little book stall pushing brilliant little books, from processions of spotless old Penguins to stacks of sparkling modern hardbacks. Saturdays on Bristol’s Wine Street and Sundays at the Tobacco Factory Market. Lost: £4.50 on this perfect 1962 Pelican first-edition of William Morris’s writing and designs. Oh, and a stinker of a hangover. Mighty indeed. [...]
Choose What You Read
Posted in Discovery of the Week, Events, Second-hand on June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every morning on my way to work I walk within two feet of a jolly young chap, dreadlocked of hair and patchworked of pant, handing out free stuff. Now, I’m usually all up for free stuff, and not one to pass up chitchat with a person sporting multicoloured trousers with such aplomb, but each day [...]
Discovery of the Week: Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights
Posted in Bookshops, Discovery of the Week, Profile, Shops, tagged Bath, indie, Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, Pets, Vlashka on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bath’s Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights – this week’s jackpot – sets The Bind’s detector beeping not only on account of its fantastic moniker; its 2008 Independent Bookshop of the Year accolade; its ‘bibliotherapy’ room, replete with battered, comfy armchairs and help-yourself coffee; the Tintin cartoon strip wallpaper sidling up to the staircase… … [...]
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