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Joseph Cottle and the Romantics: The Life of a Bristol Publisher
Basil Cottle
Joseph Cottle of Bristol is 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. He produced an edition of Thomas Chatterton’s poems and wrote (rather second-rate) verse epics of his own. His controversial Recollections of Coleridge were notorious for publicizing the poet’s opium addiction. His life and correspondence included contact with notables of the period, both inside and outside the literary world: Wesley, Hannah More, the ‘milk-maid poet’ Ann Yearsley, Humphry Davy, de Quincey, Byron, Mary Russell Mitford and many others.
This biography sheds light both on nineteenth-century Bristol and the literary world of the time, and on the emerging Romantic Movement. It offers fascinating insights into author-publisher relationships and aspects of the relationship between literature and economics, geography,
theology, biography, private life, personal prejudices and other elements in the contemporary culture. With its rich sense of locales and relationships and their relevance to writers, Joseph Cottle and the Romantics is of interest not only to scholars of Romantic literature, but also to social historians and those interested in the history of Bristol.
Basil Cottle was not related to his namesake. This biography, combining literary-historical and local interest, epitomises his special skills. A Reader in the Department of English at Bristol University, he wrote well-respected books on the history of language and literature, and was an expert on Bristol and its history. He was also noted for the vigour, wit and clarity of his style, as evidenced here in a book as readable and accessible as it is informative.
234 x 156mm
approx 356pp, with black and white photographs
Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-1-904537-80-9
£35
PUBLISHED MARCH 2008
Man-made Eden: Historic Orchards of Somerset and Gloucestershire
James Russell
The West Country is famed for its orchards, but why are they here? As the campaign to save and 
celebrate English orchards gathers momentum, this book explores their fascinating and – until now – neglected history. Why is Glastonbury known as Avalon, the Isle of Apples? What made Redstreak Cyder the most popular drink of the seventeenth century? Who was Dr Ashmead, cultivator of the connoisseur’s favourite apple, Ashmead’s Kernel? How did a Somerset vicar come to make cider for Queen Victoria?
This rich, wide-ranging book takes a long historic look at changing fashions and fortunes – asking why thirteenth-century monks and Edwardian landowners planted orchards, and why post-war governments paid farmers to destroy them.
The author argues that Apple Day (October 21) should be made our national autumn holiday. He examines the role of Common Ground, the National Trust and other organisations in preserving and restoring orchards, and asks: what can we do to make our orchards as profitable as they were in centuries past?
James Russell has written for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, Countryman Magazine, BBC History Magazine, British Heritage, Somerset Life, the Bristol and Bath Magazines, Venue and many other publications.
ISBN: 978-1-904537-75-5
240 x 200mm
160pp with extensive colour throughout
Softback
£15
Entertaining Bridge: Social Bridge at Home
Caroline Salt 
This book is for complete beginners, yet seasoned Bridge players will also learn useful tips. Most writers of books about Bridge seem to automatically assume that the aim of players is to join a Club and play Duplicate Bridge but many hundreds of thousands play only social Rubber Bridge; they meet in each other’s houses and enjoy the friendly atmosphere, the chit-chat, all mixed with the undoubted pleasure of playing the best game in the world. Most of them have decided that they do not play a game to win nor to gain status by progressing up the Bridge ladder, they play for FUN.
This book is for people who want to learn to play Social Bridge. Its clear instructions, with examples and quizzes, will enable a novice to be able to play rudimentary bridge by Chapter 4. Bridge for two and three players is also included, because sometimes someone is unable to make up the usual four, as is a History of Bridge for players who like to know the antecedents of their game.
Often a snack or a meal is an integral part of Social Bridge. The book also includes recipes for lunch, tea and supper, which can be prepared in advance, so that the hostess does not have to jump up from the card table.
Caroline Salt is a qualified Bridge teacher and has been teaching social Rubber Bridge for many years. This book is the result of her being aware and listening to the many different comments made by the hundreds of her pupils endeavouring and succeeding to master the basic elements of the game. A second, more advanced book, could follow at a later date.
The illustrations were drawn by one of her former pupils, and there are also some cartoons by the noted illustrator, the late John Hassall, which give an amusing aside to the game.
210 x 148mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-904537-74-8
£10
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2007
OFF THE WALL: A BOOK OF BRISTOL GRAFFITI
Stephen Morris
Top Bristol photographer Stephen Morris has been out and about trying to catch up with Bristol’s ever-changing graffiti –a n anarchic scene so interesting that Destination Bristol 
has given it a tourist web page all its own.
In all, he’s captured more than 50 examples. Some walls have been commissioned, by schools, pubs, youth clubs and building sites. One superb example of commissioned graffiti is the flying bread and cakes on Herbert’s bakery in Wellington Avenue, but the liveliest artwork is the unofficial, sprayed as it were on the run from arrest.
Even the best is often quickly lost under fresh paint, good art obliterated by the mindless.
And yes, Banksy is represented here.
Love it or hate it, Bristol graffiti is inventive, clever and sometimes brilliant. Is it art? Stephen Morris just took the pictures, and says it’s for us to decide.
ISBN 978 1 904537 79 3
A5 landscape 64pp colour throughout
£4.99
PUBLISHED AUGUST 2007
Len Gifford: Art is Everywhere 
Collection of elegant paintings and poems by Len Gifford. His paintings were widely admired by – amongst many others – Anthony Rossiter, Peter Swan, Liz Hunter. Writer Philip Gross contributes a foreword: ‘these poems are full of Len’s personality: wry, modest, thoughtful, with a twinkle in the eye … The book is a celebration, not just of Len Gifford but also of the world of the poetry workshop, where writers support and stimulate and tease each other’s poems into life.’
ISBN 978 1 904537 81 6 80pp softback, with colour reproductions throughout
Softback £10
To order, please contact Mrs I Gifford: email dangif@blueyonder.co.uk - telephone: 0117 924 9360
Poet Luck: A Memoir Out of the Ordinary
Bill Pickard
Bill Pickard has had more Poet Luck than any man is entitled to. Yet, as a Christian, he would prefer to call it Providence.
Life and love have always met Bill halfway, and even World War Two brought him to providential places. Doors closed and opened magically, all along the way, and Bill almost always accepted. He claims no credit for always being at the right place at the right time, but it does demand going with the flow.
This memoir has hundreds of Bill’s very varied, even exciting experiences. Most of Britain, and much of Europe, are enjoyed, and the worlds of books, bicycles and poetry are explored. Times in London City, London West End, the Home Counties, Bristol and the West Country all jostle with the many prominent people who paved his path.
From a council house on a south London estate, Bill moves through three degrees, thirty years of study, and very varied vocations. From a lively lad, Bill moves through lots of lives and eight extraordinary decades. Now washed up on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, providential doors still open for Bill Pickard.
210 x 148mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-904537-73-1
£9.99
PUBLISHED JULY 2007
A Taste of Devon
Andrea Leeman
A Taste of Devon celebrates glorious good food in Devon. 
In this sumptuously illustrated book, Andrea Leeman introduces some of the finest food and drink produced in Devon, and profiles 24 producers.
Andrea Leeman’s range extends from the north coast, wind-lashed in parts by the Atlantic, through farmyards, steeply wooded valleys and uplands to the more fertile south coast with the South Hams and the Dartmouth and Salcombe estuaries.
It is hard to imagine any other county with such diverse countryside and food. Brixham may be Devon’s major fish market, but individual fishermen such as Mark Cawsey at Clovelly, three generations of the Newton family at Beer, and David Kerley in the Fish Shed at Topsham, all tough out the competition.
Andrea visits honey makers; cheesemakers, including a mozzarella cheese farmer; a chilli farm; a hemp oil producer; an olive and almond grove; wine and cider makers. She learns from snail farmer Maura Bailie-Bellew that snails become romantically rampant during thunderstorms. Ostrich breeder Mike Godfrey even shows her how to avoid being kicked by an ostrich.
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.
Andrea Leeman is author of the companion volume A Taste of Somerset and comments that excluding airmiles – and eliminating food miles from farm to table - have been among the priorities in her quest for gastronomic excellence.
210mm x 255mm, 112pp
Full colour photography throughout
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SBN 978-1-904537-49-6
Paperback
£10
Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristol
Madge Dresser
Republished to coincide with Abolition 200, Slavery Obscured is a new departure in the growing history of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. It aims to assess how the slave trade affected the social life and cultural outlook of the citizens of a major English city, and contends that its impact was more profound than has previously been acknowledged. For much of the eighteenth century, Bristol was England’s second city and, between 1730 and 1745, its premier slaving port. Based on original research in archives in Britain and America, Slavery Obscured builds on recent scholarship in the economic history of the slave trade to ask questions about the way slave-derived wealth underpinned the city’s urban development and its growing gentility. How much did Bristol’s Georgian renaissance owe to such wealth? Who were the major players and beneficiaries of the African and West Indian trades? How, in an ever-changing historical environment, were enslaved Africans represented in the city’s press, theatre and political discourse? What do previously unexplored religious, legal and private records tell us about the black presence in Bristol or about the attitudes of white seamen, colonists and merchants towards slavery and race? What role did white women and artisans play in Bristol’s anti-slavery movement?
Combining a historical and anthropological approach, Slavery Obscured seeks to shed new light on the contradictory and complex history of an English slaving port and, by so doing, to prompt new ways of looking at British national identity, race and history.
PUBLISHED 1 FEBRUARY 2007
234 x 156mm, 256pp
ISBN: 978-1-904537-69-4
Paperback
£12.95
100 Years of Life in our Church 1907-2007
The Story of Trinity-Henleaze United Reformed Church, from the beginning
On the main road where shoppers, drivers, walkers and neighbours regularly pass, Trinity-Henleaze United Reformed Church is a lively part of life in Henleaze, used regularly today by some 900 local people. In 2007 it is a vibrant church made up of people of all ages, seeking to serve its community and share the insights of the Christian faith.
This book for our centenary year reflects on the faith and life of the Christian people who have gone before us in this place. One hundred years ago they built a church on a lane through green fields and parkland. Their intention was to be here for the people who would come to live in Henleaze as it grew as a residential area in the early twentieth century.
As inheritors of their courageous faithful acts we tell some of the stories of life in this church over one hundred years. These are the roots from which we flourish as this church, in this place, today.
220 x 155mm 96pp
Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9555527-0-0
£6.99
PUBLISHED MAY 6 2007
For further information, or to place an order for this title, please contact:
Rev. Tracey Lewis, 6 Owen Grove, Henleaze, Bristol BS9 4EF. Tel: 0117 962 9713 minister@trinityhenleazeurc.org.uk
The Henleaze Lake Story: An Account and the History of Henleaze Swimming Club
Derek F. Klemperer and Joyce F. Klemperer
Henleaze Swimming Club was founded in 1919. The club is the owner and operator of a nine-acre property situated in Bristol three miles north of the city centre. A deep flooded limestone quarry known as Henleaze Lake occupies a third of the area. The club’s 1450 members and their guests enjoy swimming, diving and sunbathing during the five summer months. Fishing takes place the year round.
The Henleaze Lake Story is an account of Henleaze Lake and Henleaze Swimming Club from the earliest quarrying days through to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It tells the story of a magical place, warts and all, and has over 100 illustrations that have been collected over many years.
244 x 170mm
140pp, including over 100 illustrations
Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-955551-0-3
£5
PUBLISHED JUNE 2007
For further information, or to place an order for this title, please contact:
Derek F. Klemperer and Joyce F. Klemperer, 25 Rockside Drive, Henleaze, Bristol BS9 4NU. Tel: 0117 962 3748. Email: derek.klemperer@virgin.net
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS : 2008
Bristol: New Perspectives
Jamie Koster
In Bristol New Perspectives photographer 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. The Elizabethans had a word for it: a conceit, a fanciful, ingenious or witty expression. James’s idiosyncratic book is just that – a photographic conceit.
Here is Bristol to be enjoyed for what it isn’t: Venice, or Sweden, or Brassai’s Paris by night; war-torn Baghdad; a chunk of Mayan architecture; Indonesia, or down-at-heel New York. Welcome to a new Bristol.
210 x 210mm
32pp, full colour throughout
ISBN: 978-1-904537-97-7
£4.99
PUBLICATION MAY 2008
St Mary Redcliffe: The Church and its People
Peter Aughton
Reflected in the waters of the Floating Harbour and looking over Redcliffe Wharf stands an ancient church of astonishing beauty. The spire stands high above the surrounding buildings. The church is full of smaller spires, its architecture Perpendicular and lavishly decorated, the walls supported by flying buttresses. It has beauty, age and symmetry. A church on the Red Cliff has dominated the area for a thousand years and the present building has been there for nearly seven hundred of those years.
St Mary Redcliffe lies on the south bank of the river Avon. It was built outside the walls of the ancient city of Bristol, yet through the centuries it has played an important part in the city’s history. And when we come to study the parish history we find not only local happenings but world shattering events. In the late fifteenth century, a parishioner called John Cabot sailed from Redcliffe to discover New Found Land across the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher Columbus notwithstanding, true Bristolians believe that America was named after Cabot’s contemporary, Richard Ameryk. In the seventeenth century, when America first became colonised by the English, William Penn of St Mary Redcliffe had the state of Pennsylvania named after him.
There is a long-standing tradition that in Tudor times Good Queen Bess admired the church so much that she declared it to be ‘the fairest and goodliest parish church in England’. The queen’s exact words cannot be confirmed but it is impossible not to agree with the sentiment. The church proved to be a great attraction for artists, musicians and poets. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey were drawn to it, not least because of its connection with the local boy-poet Thomas Chatterton. All three poets felt that they owed much of their inspiration to the boy who died a generation before them. Painters such as the young J M W Turner, Thomas Girtin, Sell Cotman, William Muller and T L Rowbotham painted memorable studies of the church in its Romantic setting.
But it is not just the celebrated and artistic, but also the ordinary people of the parish who are celebrated in this book. Peter Aughton’s lively text does justice to a rich parish history spanning many centuries, his words complemented by a selection of marvellous illustrations.
approx 160pp, with 45 colour pictures and many black and white illustrations
Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-1-904537-83-0
£17.95
PUBLICATION MAY 2008
Bristol and Beyond: Fifty-five Relief Engravings
Trevor Haddrell
Bristol and Beyond is the eagerly awaited new collection of Trevor Haddrell's engravings of familiar and no-so-familiar Bristol scenes. These range in size and complexity from an award-winning panorama taking in the view from Zero Degrees across Colston Street to the elegant simplicity of a series of evening scenes of Baltic Wharf, with the Cumberland Basin warehouses silhouetted against the fading sky.Other beautiful images include a pagoda-like University Tower scaffolded for repair, the mesmerising shapes of Christmas Steps climbing to St. Michael's Hill and the wide-sweeping King Street looking every inch a stage set. Beyond Bristol, an elegant Clevedon Pier, Clevedon Court, along with the little-known Nailsea Court, fine buildings in Thornbury and the ornate turrets, gable ends and chimney stacks of that great Victorian pile, Tyntesfield, complete a wonderful journey in and around the city.
245 x 265mm, 112pp
Hardback
ISBN 13: 978-1-904537-61-8
£17.50
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2006
In Search of Bristol
Stephen Morris
In this engaging and unique work, photographer Stephen Morris explores the iconic and obscure of his adopted home. In Search of Bristol not only celebrates the city's defining vistas - St Mary Redcliffe, Harbourside, the great Clifton terraces - it also roots around some lesser known, but much loved corners. Bristolians who thought they knew their city will be surprised, and delighted. Visitors will want to come again. This is a Bristol to discover and enjoy, with its rich history, its eccentricities and its surprises.
more than 180 photographs in full colour, with commentary
215 x 240mm, 208pp
Softback: ISBN 1 904537 60 X - £10
Hardback: ISBN 1 904537 59 6 - £14.95
A View to the Future
JT Group: a radical approach to building and development
Roland Adburgham
The JT Group is an unusual and innovative company. Founded in Bristol in 1961, it began as a construction company which, from its early days, introduced ‘design and build’ and has now created an imaginative ‘not-for-profit’ development company, Under the Sky. It has had remarkable long-term relations with arts-related organisations including Dartington Hall in Devon and Arnolfini in Bristol. John Pontin, chairman and co-founder of JT, has served as chairman of Dartington Hall, while JT’s restoration of the nineteenth-century former tea warehouse which became Arnolfini’s home was the catalyst which led to the revival of the city’s harbourside.
In A View to the Future Roland Adburgham traces the intriguing story of transformation – of a young man into a successful entrepreneur, of a young company into a major player in building design and construction, and of the application of a creative mind to the problems of urban regeneration and sustainable development.
In his support for environmental initiatives, this work has taken on national and international significance. Seeing the big picture of a world in dire need of transformation, John Pontin has moved on from being an entrepreneur to making his own unique contribution to creating effective change.
This book is essential reading for all those who want to learn about practical ways of making a better world.
ISBN 1 904537 42 1 160 pp text and black & white illustrations + 16pp colour plates
Hardback £14.95.
The Henleaze Book (2nd edition)
Veronica Bowerman 
There’s more to Henleaze than you thought
The houses, the shops, the businesses.
The land they were built on, the men who built them.
The people who lived and worked there.
This long-awaited update of Veronica Bowerman’s original book contains much fresh information and many new illustrations and plans. It gives the reader a fascinating insight into the history of Henleaze.
What they said about the first edition
“The book is full of anecdotes and personal memories rather than dry history – created, as it says itself ‘by residents and lovers of Henleaze’.” Bristol Evening Post
“I must congratulate you on the excellent and very interesting Henleaze Book which you have produced. It needed to be done.” Robert Powles
50 photographs + maps and plans.
220 x 155mm, 160pp
ISBN: 0-9553567-0-9 PUBLICATION: 4 September 2006
£6.95 (softback)
Veronica Bowerman
Email:henleazebook@yahoo.co.uk
Beastly Bristol
JULIAN LEA-JONES 
Beastly Bristol is genuinely fantastic – a stunning introduction to the menagerie of animals, birds, fish and insects surrounding us as we walk the streets of Bristol. Author Julian Lea-Jones has located literally hundreds of animal forms – on buildings, roof-tops, sculptures, railings, walls – which most of us pass by every day without even noticing. A fascinating A-Z of animals, a gazetteer and two maps to help you find them.
220 x 155 mm 80pp packed with fabulous colour and black and white illustrations
ISBN 1 904537 52 9 paperback £6.95
Published 23 May 2006
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Bristol Railway Stations and Halts
1840 - 2005
MIKE OAKLEY
This survey of Bristol’s branch railway stations and halts by a noted railway historian builds on the author’s long out-of- print earlier book, Bristol Suburban, updating it where fresh material has become available and including many new photographs. It will appeal to railway enthusiasts as well as anyone interested in Bristol’s social, economic and industrial history.
Brunel’s great Temple Meads terminus is well covered, along with a further twenty-five stations and halts inside the city boundaries which have served residents and commercial interests over the years. A particular feature is the inclusion of a number of ‘then and now’ photographs.
270 x 210mm 112pp with black and white illustrations
ISBN 1 904537 54 5 paperback £9.95
Published 19 May 2006
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Written Between the Lines
A Memoir of Redcliffe Press
JOHN SANSOM
206 x 145mm 264pp
ISBN 1 904537 55 3 hardback £12.50
Published 18 May 2006
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Dr William Budd
Bristol's most famous physician
MICHAEL DUNNILL
Most people walk past the plaque on 89 Park Street, Bristol without giving a second thought to the man it commemorates. And yet Dr William Budd, who was a true pioneer and was to become Bristol’s most distinguished physician, made an immense contribution to medicine and to the life of the city. Born in Devon, he moved to Bristol in 1841, working at St Peter’s Hospital and the Infirmary where he cared for patients during typhoid and cholera epidemics, for which there was no cure. He was able to identify how these deadly diseases spread, seeing at first hand the insanitary hovels of Lewins Mead and elsewhere in the city, and realising the need for preventive measures.
An early director of the Bristol Waterworks Company, William Budd was the moving force behind ensuring a clean water supply, one of the first essentials in combating water-born disease. Several major epidemics of infection diseases swept through nineteenth-century Britain, killing indiscriminately and showing no respect for age or social class. For years Budd fought to change misguided orthodoxies in the medical professional which denied the contagious nature of these killer diseases. When the 1866 cholera epidemic reached Bristol, much reduced death figures showed that he had largely won the grim fight to improve the nation’s health.
230 x 155mm 176pp
ISBN 1 904537 48 0 Hardback £12.95
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24 Family Walks in and around Bristol
LESLEY TURNEY
Two dozen walks, carefully chosen with families in mind, offer the chance to explore the glorious variety of countryside on Bristol’s doorstep. From a stroll on the Treasure Island trail around Bristol Harbourside and a bracing walk along the ridge of King’s Weston Hill, to the rugged splendour of Ebbor Gorge and the tranquillity of the Sharpness Canal at Frampton on Severn – Lesley Turney introduces us to the delights of family days out in the fresh air.
The walks vary in length and difficulty, but all are fun, and often stimulating to the enquiring young mind. Following public footpaths, the walks lead past ancient churches and fine houses, up to magnificent viewpoints – the top of Goblin Combe is one of the most beautiful spots in the whole of England – across woodland, meadows, along rivers and canals, even through a deserted farm, and usually end within easy distance of a country pub. The directions are easy to follow and include a simple route map.
200 x 138mm 120pp
ISBN 1 904537 47 2 paperback £6.95
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Brunel and the Art of Invention
CLAIRE O'MAHONY
Isambard Kingdom Brunel embodies the self-reliance, hard work and inventiveness which was a core achievement of the nineteenth century; Robert Howlett’s famous photograph Brunel with chains has become an iconic image of the spirit of creative adventure. This man, ‘in love with the impossible’, by sheer brilliance of invention and force of will, helped transform modern transport, engineering and architecture.
In this sumptuously illustrated study, Claire O’ Mahony shows how the self-made inventors whom Brunel has come to epitomise were shaped by a society that recognized the creative interaction between the worlds of art, industry and science.
The book has other dimensions. The author looks at the role of women in art and industry, and also suggests that our awareness of the Victorian legacy will be longer-lasting and wider-reaching if we recognise the difficulties many young Britons experience in coping with the heroic view of the nation’s history so well illustrated in this book.
265 x 210mm 64pp
ISBN 1 904537 50 2 paperback £7.95
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