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The shop is back open as normal. Phew. If you'd rather shop online than visit us in person, you can still browse and buy everything we have.
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Welcome to Storysmith

Storysmith is an independent bookshop for Bristol, on North Street in Bedminster. We do events, coffee, next-day ordering and worldwide delivery.

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The Shop

We stock a tightly curated range of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. Our non-fiction sections include cookery, art, nature, science & thought, society, interesting lives and history. We’re also very happy to provide (and receive) recommendations.

We’re proud to serve delicious Triple Co Roast coffee and cakes from Mark’s Bread, and encourage you to linger with both while browsing.

Credit: @JonCraig_Photos
Credit: @JonCraig_Photos

Opening hours:

Our standard opening hours are:

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm

Sunday, 11am-4pm

One thing we frequently get asked for in the shop is nature writing specifically NOT written by white men. So we did what we do best - we made a list! 🎩 SUBSCRIPTION REVEAL🎩 One of our favourite angles in the shop: maximum sunlight, maximum hardback fiction! Such a lot of good new stuff in at the moment, perfect now that it’s officially outdoor-reading weather… 🌞 #indiebookshop #shelfrespect #bookshopsofinstagram #bristolbookshop Now THAT is how you sign a book. Customised stamp and everything! We were so pleased to bag a limited little pile of signed copies of @kawakami_mieko’s searing and brilliant Heaven - if you, like us, were a bit obsessed with Breasts And Eggs, then you’ll probably be requiring one of these too 🥚🥚🥚 @picadorbooks Heck of a day for paperbacks. Can you believe books contain literally boundless invention, challenge and salvation, and then we're like 'ok, £8.99 seems fair I guess'? Nuts really. Anyway. Some bold new titles here, and a couple of hardback favourites given the paperback treatment as of this week. 🔥Heading into the weekend with HOT NEW HARDBACKS!🔥 📚WHOPPER TIME📚 💫BOOKSELLERS RECOMMEND 4 U!💫 OK WE ADMIT IT, very occasionally we stock books based purely on the cover. Fortunately the content for this one looks equally stunning - tragicomic short stories from Pakistan, deft and energetic tales of power and desire. Swipe for a close-up of a real mood. FINALLY, the third instalment in Deborah Levy’s indulgent, candid and acidic living autobiography series is here, and looking very pleasing alongside its primary-colour predecessors. We’ve been hanging on for pt.3 for what seems like years and now the trilogy is complete... anyone else itching to get stuck into Real Estate? 🌧Rainy day antidote🌧 SNEAK PEEK: this month's book in our Subscriptions for Curious Readers is a beautiful, dark whirlwind of a thing - Pew, by Catherine Lacey. TABLE TALK: our front table is looking good this morning. Loaded with new stuff and some of our perennial faves. Also, are we imagining this, or is the floor wearing away where people stand around flipping through their next read? Definitely the kind of ageing process we can tolerate 🪵 #indiebookshop #bookswelove #tablesareforbooks The Women's Prize shortlist, in all its glory. And if you'd like to devour the whole lot in one go, then please enjoy 10% off! New week, new HOT STACK of books! Some brilliant stuff here: the long-awaited paperback of The Vanishing Half, reissued poetry from Wanda Coleman, Ronan Hession’s follow-up to Leonard And Hungry Paul, a new Malcolm G chinstroker and more! Swipe for the covers! Someone finally decided to turn up for work. We are so pleased to be championing Danielle Jawando's 'And The Stars Were Burning Brightly' as part of the @jhalakprize - it's a brilliant shortlist this year (as always), but we're particularly excited about this stunning YA novel. It cleverly and sensitively approaches its subjects without ever patronising or over-dramatising, and the evocations of everyday life are beautifully woven (how many novels do you see mentioning Poundland?). This is a story that wears its emotions on its sleeve, and you'll be swept along with Nathan and Megan's mission to discover why Nathan's brother Al took his own life. #jhalakprizeat5 #jhalakprize @simonkidsuk @danielle_jawando @book_tokens One of our favourite things about being booksellers is that feeling of getting a few steps ahead of what’s on display in the shop - we are constantly handing advance copies around between us and comparing notes, seeing which books we’re going to be championing in the coming months. It means that when you come to the shop looking for your next read, we’ve got the intel on the very latest gems for you to enjoy. Here are some of the books we’re most excited about for the next few months - expect weirdness in the form of bear relationships and synchronised swimming as an act of resistance, among other delights... @dauntbooks @scribe_uk @picadorbooks @charcopress @atlanticbooks
Location 49 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1EN Phone 0117 279 1751 E-mail storysmithbooks@gmail.com Hours Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-6pm | Sunday: 11am-4pm | Monday: closed
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