We are open!

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.

Re-opening hours:

As of Tuesday 13th April 2021, we will be back open as normal with the following hours:

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm

Sunday, 11am-4pm

Browse and buy books:

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Subscriptions for Curious Readers

We also do monthly book subscriptions for curious readers, which make excellent gifts.

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

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 What a lovely day. Nice to see you all! #bookshopsareback 🎨NEW WINDOW ART!🎨 Our bookshop is small but it has many corners of interest... 😃📣WE'RE BACK📣😃 Some very delicious new books have arrived in the last week or two - stalwarts like Murakami and Tracey Thorn have substantial new releases, there's essays from Rachel Kushner (of The Mars Room fame), some tasty-looking new lit-fic from Jessie Greengrass and Gwendoline Riley, and a special shout-out for Mariana Enriquez's new short story collection which we've read (it's WHOAH) and Hanif Abdurraqib's new essay collection which we're currently deep into (it's WOW). KIDS BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS! We've had some beautiful new kids books in recently, and they are very much deserving of their own insta post. All available on our website now... IMPORTANT STATIONERY UPDATE: we had some packing tape printed so our mail order packages now come with a lovely book cummerbund. No shame in being excited about that. ✍️✍️SIGNED COPIES✍️✍️ We are drinking coffee and coveting new hardbacks. You? 💫BOOKSELLER RECOMMENDATIONS💫 ✍️SIGNED COPIES!✍️ New week, new hardbacks! Any of these on your to-read list? We especially like the look of Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Gay Bar, a loving, riotous and forensic examination of the gay bar scenes of London, San Francisco and LA🕺 It’s ok, we’ve found the best Mother’s Day books! Shirley Jackson is probably better known as the queen of gothic suspense, but she was also a sharp and sardonic chronicler of her own family life in a tumbledown house in Vermont with her young children - collected in these two volumes of memoir. She is resolutely un-1950s about her motherhood and the resulting stories of her family antics (invisible friends, overbearing teachers, minor hospitalisations) are sweet on the surface but sticky and burnt underneath. We 💜 SJ and so will your mum. Ooh, some VERY pleasing paperbacks out this last week - cheap, portable, aesthetically pleasing in a stack and very enriching... all at storysmithbooks.com/shop right now! A little announcement from Storysmith HQ... 🤖🤖🤖Very desirable SIGNED indie exclusive edition of the new novel from Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara And The Sun!🤖🤖🤖

You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and check out our upcoming events here. See you soon!

Location 49 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1EN Phone 0117 279 1751 E-mail storysmithbooks@gmail.com Hours Click and collect: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-3pm | Sunday & Monday, closed
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