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

🔊ANNOUNCEMENT!🔊 🎃SPOOKY READING LIST🎃 🎉HAPPY BOOKSHOP DAY!🎉 🐕 🐈‍⬛ SUBSCRIPTION REVEAL🐕🐈‍⬛ 👶LIVE DAD CHAT👶 👻STUNNING NEW KIDS BOOKS👻 📚MIDWEEK STACK📚 📚SATURDAY TABLE TALK📚 Last night we had a full house of happy readers thanks to a quadruple-header of a bill from @fitzcarraldoeditions - four stunning readings from four new books. Ah man. Events! We’ve missed having authors reading their work in the shop so much! Thank you @pollybukuro #adammarsjones @alicehattrick and @vanessa_onwuemezi for reading (and Daphne the dog for augmenting Alice’s reading so beautifully). ☀️NEW READING LIST!☀️ We like to make sure every book we stock is approved by Roy, even when they’re written by famous authors like Richard Osman. Fortunately this one passed the test. 📚BOOKSELLER’S DOUBLE📚 You can probably make out the two biggest hardback releases of the year at the centre of our display (good morning Sally and Richard), but you might also notice that we’ve surrounded them with some of our more esoteric recent favourites. In cinemas they call it counter-programming, maybe we should call it counter-curating? Counter-shelving? It’s our not-so-subtle way of encouraging new discoveries which, as we all know, is the best thing about going to the bookshop. We do it on our paperback table too, and everywhere else in the shop. Anyway, loads more recommendations available when you come and visit… when you don’t know which book to read first but you are also a bookshop dog so the pressure of picking something really good that you can recommend to customers is much higher and you need a lie down 📚 BOOKSELLER’S DOUBLE📚 ⚽️SUBSCRIPTION REVEAL⚽️ LET THE DISCOURSE COMMENCE! Today’s sign 🎵
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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