Welcome to Bristol’s first books-and-arts magazine. The Bristol Review of Books showcases literature and arts in the Bristol area, with incisive reviews, comment, features, interviews and new poetry and fiction.

Features so far have included Banksy’s Bristol, Bristolese, Thomas Chatterton, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol’s role in the Romantic Movement, the Bristol Sound, Allen Lane, Stanley Spencer in Bristol, E H Young, the novelist who chronicled Clifton in the 1920s and 1930s, John Piper, Bristol’s historic Habourside, interviews with writers including Helen Dunmore and Philip Gross and much more.

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Bristol Review of Books, published four times a year, is free from local bookshops, libraries and arts venues across the city. Subscribers (at £20.00) have the magazine delivered to their door and receive Volumes 2 and 3 of the Bristol Short Story Prize anthologies worth £20. Subscribers will alo receive invitations to book launches and other events.