Welcome to Storysmith

Storysmith is an independent bookshop for Bristol, at 236 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 encourage you to linger while browsing.

Opening hours:

Our standard opening hours are:

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm

Sunday, 11am-4pm

Visit us:

Storysmith, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD

When the sun hits your @ejits yeti/bookworm mural on a sunny Sunday morning and the vibes are unassailable 🐛 🌞 A fairly non-aesthetic post to inform you of our upcoming AUTHOR EVENTS, each one featuring 1+ internationally renowned artists with incredible new work to brag about (we’ve read all the featured books OF COURSE WE HAVE what do you take us for). Not to be unbearable about it but this year has genuinely given us our best run of events in the life of our little shop, and we love seeing you see the authors, if that makes any sense. ☀️☀️☀️ Good morning from the sunny and inviting bookshop (just before we opened…)☀️☀️☀️ 🦕NEW WINDOW REVEAL🦕 ✨BOOKSELLER’S DOUBLE✨ 📣NEW EVENT📣 😬ANOTHER BATTERED PROOF😬 No surprises, we had a very special night and a full shop with Lynne Tillman. Defiantly unsentimental, funny, wryly honest when it comes to the under-discussed area of caring for one’s parent in later life (and all the entailed complications), she deployed her unflinching wisdom with such generosity. Thank you for spending quality time with us, and thank you to Juliet Jacques for guiding the conversation so beautifully! Gargantuan stack of new items this week, presided over by our one true king Roy 👑 💙DEBORAH RETURNS!💙 One of the surest signs of a future shop favourite is a truly dog-eared proof. We were fortunate enough to get an early copy of Brandon Taylor’s second novel, The Late Americans, a few months back, and since then it’s been passed between eager booksellers who are able confirm that, yes, it’s wonderful and you’re going to be obsessed with it this summer. We feel so lucky to have hosted the launch for Noreen Masud’s unique and captivating memoir A Flat Place earlier this week. To a packed shop of rapt listeners she talked through the significance of the flatlands that she explores in the book, and some of the comforts of the bare, open, flat landscapes that she loves. Such a generous and mind-expanding discussion - big thanks to Sam Walton for guiding the conversation so thoughtfully. Just appreciating organised shelving today, nothing else really. Before the shutters go up on a slightly grey Sunday, a quick tour of cool new stuff in this weekend… 💙DOUGLAS STUART IN BRISTOL💙 The sun is out, the shop is full of readers and we have approx 1 zillion new books in stock for you to chew on. Could it… could it possibly be… time… to read… OUTSIDE??? 🪴 🌞 🏝️ 🐛 Seems like an especially top release day today - new Max Porter, Catherine Lacey, Curtis Sittenfeld, as well as one of our fave fiction debuts so far this year, Michael Magee’s Close To Home. We had the coolest time with Catherine Lacey last night, hearing in exacting and enlivening detail about her stunning new novel Biography of X which - if you didn’t know - is a banger on all fronts, a multi-banger, an uber-banger, the ur-banger.
Location 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD Phone 0117 953 7961 E-mail hello@storysmithbooks.com Hours Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-6pm | Sunday: 11am-4pm | Monday: closed
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