Click on any of the covers to read the publishers blurb on our website, where you can order the book for collection from the shop or home delivery.

we are extremely pleased to announce that we will be hosting the much-loved Bristol author and poet, Stefan Mohamed, next month. Stefan will be discussing and reading from his brilliant new poetry collection, The Revelation Tapes, in conversation with fellow Bristol poet, Tom Sastry.

Here’s more from the collection’s publisher, Broken Sleep Books:

The Revelation Tapes… unfolds as a salvaged transmission: a film-show remastered from corroded cassettes, screened in the ruins of a drowned future, its overture barked by a game-show host of the apocalypse. Across seven acts a loose band of kids persevere through ecological collapse, blag their way into a nightclub at the end of the world, and meet God at the end of a metaphorical bullet. Mohamed braids manic comedy with grief, moving from prose tirade to scattered concrete text to group-chat syntax as he works through parasocial fixation, the remix of memory and self, and the wreckage of the overexamined mind. Mohamed’s poetry loops back on itself like the river that opens and closes it, finding tenderness inside the noise.

If you’ve never witnessed the Stefan Mohamed experience before then this is an evening not to miss!

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“Stefan Mohamed is a brilliant poet… A joyful and furious collection, and his best so far.” — Luke Kennard

“Stefan Mohamed is an unparalleled phrase maker, and this collection is rich with typographic and repetitious play that gives these poems their dark musicality.” — Suzannah Evans

“A mesmeric and sprawling work of alarming talent and uniqueness … I was gripped by the storytelling, wit and complexity of this book.” — Jake Wild Hall

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Stefan Mohamed is an award-winning author, poet, performer and creative writing tutor based in Bristol. He is the author of five novels and four books of poetry; The Revelation Tapes, is his fifth. He also DJs.

Tom Sastry is political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. He is the author of three poetry collections and one pamphlet. These have been, variously, Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.

It might be too hot for the usual routines at the moment. But book browsing remains one of life’s great delights, regardless of the weather. So we’re bringing a little bit of that joy to you, in the comfort (we hope) of your home, surrounded by fans and cool damp towels.

Like a bookish wraith, disembodied and hungry for good words nicely strung together into satisfying sentences, you can haunt our displays from afar. Let your eyes flit about the covers until they alight on something appealing. Bloop! You click through to a description of the book from its publisher on our own little website. Does it sound like something you’d like to read in the park, on the beach, aboard a long boat on the Kennet & Avon canal, or a trireme in the middle of the North Sea? You can buy it then & there to be delivered to your very door by good ol’ Royal Mail. Or if you’re feeling frisky you can get up out of your comfortable chair, dress & shoe yourself and stroll on down to see the item in its papery flesh. Would you like it? Does it need a friend? Let your eyes roam again. Bloop! There, now you have holiday reading. Rejoice! But please take care on the canals and seas. Keep a hand on the tiller at all times, even while reading.

We are delighted to be able to offer pre-orders of signed & dedicated copies.

Time is a little tight. Orders must be placed by midnight on Thursday 16th July. Books will then be available for collection, or to be posted, on the publication date of Thursday July 23rd.

This struck a chord with parents everywhere experiencing similar emotional highs and lows as they sent their children off into adult life. Including the chapters: Legacy Recipes, Cooking on a Budget, All Back to Mine – Late Night Food, Flatshare Feasts, Faster than Fast Food and Sweet Tooth – these are simple, accessible recipes for cooking nutritious food on a budget. Through memories and stories of family and food, Claire perfectly captures the bittersweet moment of watching your child begin their independent life – and the comfort of knowing they can feed themselves and their friends with confidence and creativity.

The graphic novel occupies a very unique, too often overlooked, space in the literary landscape. Even the most ardent book lovers who pride themselves on their cross-genre reading might neglect the form. And this is a great shame. Because not only are graphic novels often beautifully designed objects, the format lends itself to being extremely immersive. Some images may stay with the reader longer than any paragraph ever could. It’s also a way to support brilliant artists and authors at the same time!