Our Books

We’ve got a range of more substantial reading, as the cliche goes, ‘to suit every pocket’.

 

Detail from the cover of Gambrinus Waltz.

Gambrinus Waltz

This short e-book is available exclusively for Amazon Kindle for £2.00 — the fruits of a year’s research for less than the price of a Cornish pasty. It tells the story of London’s first lager beer boom between 1868 and 1914. It has a cast of eccentric Germans, tales of espionage, and pen portraits of long-gone watering holes from the seedy Strand to the glitter of Piccadilly Circus.

  • “…well written… superbly researched…” — Tim Holt, Journal of the Brewery History Society
  • “An excellent e-book” — Martyn Cornell

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Front cover of Brew Britannia.

Brew Britannia: the strange rebirth of British beer

Then, of course, there’s our baby, of which we’re very proud. It tells the story of how Britain got from Watney’s to BrewDog, via CAMRA, in the space of 40 years. It won us a couple of awards, got us nominated for another, and people have said some very nice things about it. As of July 2017 a new edition is available — smaller format, cheaper (RRP £8.99), with corrections but not updates. It’s available as an e-book (around £6-10) or paperback (£9-13) from the following places, among many others:

Amazon.co.uk (UK) | Amazon.com (US) | Blackwell’s | StanfordsWaterstones |  Amazon Kindle Apple iBook | Kobo | direct from Quarto

 


The cover of 20th Century Pub.

20th CEntury Pub

Released in late 2017, our most recent book project won us the award for best writing about pubs at the Guild of British Beer Writers Awards in 2018, got shortlisted in the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards, and was one of the Guardian’s best drinks books of the year.

Amazon.co.uk (UK) | Amazon.com (US) | Blackwell’s | Stanfords | CAMRA | direct from the publisher

 

4 replies on “Our Books”

Do you have a book covering the annual migration of agricultural labourers from Suffolk to Burton on trent?

I found your article on the Falmouth brewer interesting, as I’ve lived here for some years now.

Spent my first half Century as a Bristolian. Joined CAMRA in 1976 although not a member for several years.
I witnessed the formation of Smiles, Butcombe, Mendip ales, and Bath Ales.
Once offered a job as trainee brewer with David Bruce (Firkin chain as was), but I had to move to his London pub, so declined. Regrets…a few.

I think that a book covering the above mentioned breweries would make good reading. Butcombe coming from the ex M.D. of Courage Western, the late Simon Whitmore (who trained as brewer at Guinness Park Royal) and Mendip ales from the former Courage Bristol Head brewer/Bath Rugby player Roger Walkey.

Bristol is of course now alive with small breweries.

Stephen – I think almost all of them get a mention in Brew Britannia which covers, among other things, the rise of UK microbrewing in the 1970s and 80s.

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