Books for Amnesty Bristol

11/02/2026

It's Half Term so it is time for a special sale of books for children and young adults - all 50p or less.

It starts today and runs all the way through to closing time on Wednesday 25th February.

Come on down and see what we've got.

15/12/2025

We receive and sell a lot of Lee Child books in the Amnesty Bookshop. Hadn't known that in the UK Lee outsells both Stephen King and John Grisham!

He started writing at 40 after he was made redundant. He sat down and wrote his first Reacher novel Killing Floor. He found himself an agent and the novel was published in March 1997.

Lee Child, writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

12/12/2025

Trollope's novels include The Rector's Wife, Marrying The Mistress, Second Honeymoon and Daughters in Law

The writer was famous for her stories about romance and intrigue in rural middle England.

03/12/2025

It is a good idea to tell people you practise Tsundoku before they decide you're a book hoarder. 📖 📕 📚

28/11/2025

"The writer of a children’s book has license to abandon time and place, to create, to propose"

Penelope Lively reflects on why children’s books matter.

Why does children’s literature matter? WH Auden pronounced, in the course of a long essay on Alice in Wonderland and Lewis Carroll: “There are good books that are only for adults, because their comprehension presupposes adult experiences, but there are no good books that are only for children...

22/11/2025

In November 2020, the “Shop Local Gloucester Road” Facebook group was set up to help everyone (particularly the traders) survive Lockdown.
To mark the 5th anniversary of the group, they asked the members for nominations for the first ever Gloucester Road business awards. An awards ceremony attended by around 200 people was held on Thursday evening at The Nevil Rd Community Club.
A total of 65 businesses were nominated in six categories.
The Amnesty Bookshop was the WINNER in the Best Value category.

Winners of the other categories:-
Best customer service – The Phone Shop
Most innovative – The Key Cafe
Friendliest Owner / Team – Café Dream
Most environmentally sensitive - Scoopaway
Gloucester Rd Legend – Joe’s Bakery
We would like to thank everyone who nominated and voted for the Bookshop.
The Amnesty Bookshop has been part of the Gloucester Road community for the past 28 years.
When you shop with us, you’re not just picking up a book; you’re helping fund urgent human rights campaigns around the world.

16/11/2025

Great to get children reading

25/10/2025

📚 📘📖 HALF TERM BOOK SALE 📚 📗📖📔

Runs all the way through to 5pm next Saturday November 1st

All children's and young adult books are 50p or less.
Fiction and non-fiction bargains to be had and so many lovely books waiting to be read and enjoyed.
So bring your bags and fill them!

14/10/2025

A little late but wanted to post as this is lovely.

02/10/2025

"Books were a very important part of my childhood. TV had not been invented so we learned from books, listening to the radio and from our elders.
The first book that really made an impression was The Story of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting. It was one of the most exciting presents I remember - my very own book!
There was a magical second hand bookshop, run by a gnome of an old man, Arturio. He would buy lots of books sold from people's libraries. The shop was tiny and the shelves were close together. Little
lighting - saving energy for the war effort. And the books were no longer organized properly on the shelves and all the new lots were piled higgledy-piggeldy on the floor. I would spend hours crawling around. And I found such treasures"

Excerpt from The Jane Goodall Institute.

25/09/2025

I recently saw an amazing oar made by an artist who had been inspired by the instructions given to Odysseus to "take a well-made oar and travel far inland until he finds a place where people know nothing of the sea and do not eat salt". It made me think about The Odyssey as well as some of the Greek myth retellings I have got but not yet read - not surprise there many will say! Now after reading the list in this article, I have some more to look out for next time I'm in the shop.

Greek myth retellings are dominating the market - but here is the ultimate guide to reading through these retellings of ancient stories!

09/08/2025

It's National Book Lovers Day, so the perfect time to come to the Amnesty Bookshop!

National Book Lovers Day 2021: Books can still take you anywhere — even in our digital age. Get set for a look at how the published word has changed the world.