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Week 6: Eye Contact vs Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion
Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion is published by Wizard’s Tower Press who also produced the tribute Colinthology. They are a curious publisher who specialise in science fiction and fantasy but don’t want submissions and won’t read them if you send any. This isn’t the only reason they have become a firm favourite, they are also […]
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Week 1: Heartman vs Colinthology
Round 1, between Heartman and Colinthology, may be the most Bristolian of all because it is full of the paradoxes that make this city what it is. From spring to nearly winter there is a festival every weekend and one of the biggest celebrations took place yesterday at the very heart of St Paul’s and […]
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Bristol novel rankings
Group 1 – The Elites Filer, Nathan – The Shock of the Fall (2013) Freeman, Anna – The Fair Fight (2014) Benatar, Stephen – Wish Her Safe at Home (1982) Brown, Chris – Guilty Tiger , Bovver (2002) Carter, Angela – ‘The Bristol Trilogy’ (link):Shadow Dance (1966), Several Perceptions (1968) and Love (1971) – Locarno Ballroom. Manson, […]
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Order of play for the Bristol Book Tournament
The following table shows the order of play for the tournament. Group 2 v Group 4 Group 7 v Group 1 Group 5 v Group 3 Group 8 v Group 6. For the first month, for example, the books competing will be as follows: Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending vs CJ Flood’s Infinite […]
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Bristol Novel 2017
This page contains a link to all the information and posts about the Bristol Novel project. The methodology for the Bristol Novel has changed as the tournament faced challenges that made it an unattractive process in the end. I won’t be comparing novels for the time being, but instead will be writing about each author […]
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The list of Bristol books so far, whittling down to 32
Updated: 2014-05-21 In pursuit of the best Bristol novel ever written the first stage is finding as many Bristol novels as possible. Then there will be a selection and then the tournament. The list of Bristol Novels Ames, Laurel – Castaway Archer, Jeffrey – Only Time Will Tell Barnes, Julian – The Sense of An […]