Local Interest and Maps
NEW IN – 2025 G.B. Road Atlases
TWO NEW WALKING GUIDES PUBLISHED IN 2024
We stock most Landranger and Regional Ordnance Survey maps plus many of the Explorer and Tourist maps.
Also Local and National Walk Books for exploring our beautiful countryside.
alison’s bookshop is the official stockist for Tewkesbury Historical Society bulletins.
“The Cotswold Boy : From The Coronation To ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ – A Childhood In the 50s And 60s” – by Martin White
This is a memoir of childhood in the Cotswolds in the 1950s and early 60s. Its focus is Stroud (especially Rodborough) and (in the book’s last section) Gloucester, but it...
“Litany of Lies” : by Sarah Hawkswood
Book.12. of Bradecott & Catchpole Locally Based Medieval Mysteries. Now available in paperback. Midsummer, 1145. Walter, the steward of Evesham Abbey, is found dead at the bottom of a well...
“Pit Stop – The Forest of Dean – Iron & Coal Mining Industries” : by Dave Organ
From the earliest of times, man has sought minerals from the Earth, none more so than within the bounds of the Forest of Dean. Its geological structure contained a wealth...
“Collected Poems” : by Laurie Lee
Paperback Edition now available! A landmark collection of poems from the author of "Cider with Rosie". Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative...
“Gloucestershire: A Celebration” : by Paul Nicholls
The scenic county of Gloucestershire boasts superb varied landscapes, from the Cotswolds to the Forest of Dean and the Severn Valley, as well as historic towns and villages and the...
“Glorious Gloucestershire” : by Mark Cummings
Did you know that Sir Peter Scott was named after Peter Pan; a Stroud man invented instant custard; and a Cotswold manor house is designed to look exactly like the...
