the website of 'The Book Shop' Bridport, one of the worlds main sellers of books about Dorset and books by Dorset authors.
Local
Authors
We stock an extensive range of books by local authors. As well as Hardy and Fowles, Dorset has numerous lesser known writers who's books are always kept in stock. Telephone or e-mail us for more details. dorsetbooks
VISIT
THE WEBSITES OF LOCAL AUTHORS SPONSORED BY THE BOOK SHOP:
A-C
www.dorsetbooks.com/paul (Paul
Atterbury)
www.dorsetbooks.com/stories (Adrian
Beckingham)
www.dorset books.com/kit (Kit
Berry)
www.dorsetbooks.com/amanda (Amanda
Elaine Brake)
www.dorset
books.com/elizabeth (Elizabeth
Buckler Gale)
www.dorset books.com/christopher
(Christopher Colville)
www.dorset books.com/richard
(Richard
Connaughton)
www.dorsetbooks.com/james.crowden (James
Crowden)
www.dorset books.com/coplestone (Lis
& Jim Coplestone)
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click for full book listing......... 
Adrian
Beckingham now lives locally
at Drimpton, a small village adjacent to Bridport, he came
to The Book Shop in May to promote his latest book.
Kit
Berry
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A NEW local author from Weymouth, has published two in a series
of books about a character who is hotly tipped to be the next
Harry Potter. Kit was inspired by her own experience as a practising
pagan and this book 'Magus of Stonewylde' is exclusive to The
Book Shop, in Bridport.
Amanda
Elaine Brake - a
local author and illustrator living in Bridport, has been
a keen artist since she was very young, discovered her passion
was working with soft chalk pastels where she could blend
rich colours. She has fully illustrated her children's book
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'The
Dog Tags' is a fictional novel from Elizabeth Buckler Gale,
following on from her earlier books about Burton Bradstock
(Farmers, Fishermen and Flax Spinners & Two Days One
Summer). 
Christopher
Coville was brought up in Liverpool and joined the RAF
in 1964, at the height of the Cold War. He
flew Lightnings, F4 Phantoms and the Tornado F3 and displayed
Hurricanes and Spitfires on the Battle of Britain Memorial
Flight.
In
keeping with it's policy of promoting local authors, The
Book Shop was pleased to invite Richard Connaughton to the
shop to sign copies of his latest Best Seller - 'OMAI -The
Prince Who Never Was'. 
Lis
and Jim Coplestone came to The Book
Shop to read their latest children's book NOAH'S BED.
James
Crowden
is a local author and for the last 20 years has worked in
North Dorset and South Somerset as a shepherd, sheep shearer,
cider maker and forester. The choice of manual work was deliberate
and gave him a deeper understanding of the landscape.
