Books

City classic is republished

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

You may be lucky enough to have an original copy of A Barbeau's Life & Letters at Bath in the Eighteenth Century which was first published in 1904.

If not, it has just been republished in paperback by The History Press in Stroud.

Eighteenth-century...

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Is this Great War photo?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A reader from Tunley is appealing for help in trying to uncover the identity of a photograph she found at the home of her late mother-in- law. Gay...

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One solution to current crisis

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Bath antiques dealer F Kach has published a new book about the economic crisis and a possible solution to it. Mr Kach, who runs his business at the...

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Jeremy puts his three plays into one volume

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The story of how a canal was built to take coal from the Radstock pits into Bath was recently the subject of a play written by a Peasedown St John...

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Snow sports are now big business for Bath

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

In the past couple of weeks snow has brought unimagined fame to one young sportswoman from Bath. But while Amy Williams was bringing home a gold...

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It's my job to tell the truth, says Rawnsley

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

The most talked about and possibly most influential author in Britain at the moment made a special appearance at the Bath Literature Festival on...

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TV's Valentine to take over closing slot

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

There was a bit of a panic at the Lit Fest on Monday when news came through that Raymond Blanc, one of the world's greatest chefs, had broken his leg...

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New biography

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Chris Skidmore, the prospective Conservative MP for Kingswood, will be at Topping in Bath on Tuesday, March 9 to talk not about politics but about...

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Rawnsley is the Bath Lit Fest's unexpected star

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The political historian Andrew Rawnsley, whose new book was the launch pad for this week's Gordon Brown bullying scandal, is the unexpected star turn...

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Date with crime

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A new club for lovers of thrillers and crime novels has its first meeting at St James Wine Vaults in Bath next Month. In last week's Chronicle we said...

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