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Books covering Malvern and the area around not featured elsewhere on MalvernTrail. Titles relating to a particular town or subject will generally be listed on the page dealing with that area.
Local/specialised bookshops.
Publishers of local titles.

Also See

Sources of pictures (photographs, drawings, art) with a Malvern flavour on Creative page.
Outdoor Links for Maps.
Cycling or Walking pages for relevant route guide books.
Malvern Hills for geology trails and (under Springs) for titles by local historian Cora Weaver.

Note: links to the online Amazon bookshop are given where a book should be readily available that way, unless we say otherwise.

Specific Books

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Do let us know of any of interest which ought to be featured here.

A Pictorial Guide to The Malvern Hills by Carl Flint, self-published as Malvern Walks, August 2010. Buy from Beacon Books, £7-95. It is in the style of Wainwright Walks, sub-titled "an illustrated study and exploration of the Malvern Hills" starting in BookOne with walks for North Malvern, West Malvern and Malvern Link. Review to come very shortly.

The Malvern Hills, a photographic collection by Mike Smart, published by Frances Lincoln Publishers, March 2009. From Amazon.co.uk.

Ledbury: A Market Town and Its Tudor Heritage by Sylvia Pinches, Phillimore & Co, June 2009. From Amazon.co.uk.

Various Guide Books

Anglo-Saxon Herefordshire Raymond Perry (November 2002); Oxengard Press, ISBN 0-9543287-0-1, £8.99. See dedicated web site (has good links page too).

Cotswolds, Malverns and Forest of Dean Map and Guidebook in One Goldeneye Maps ISBN 1859651453. Buy from Amazon.co.uk.

A literary trail around the Malverns (April 03). Produced by Malvern Hills AONB, available from local bookshops, TICs. Designed for motor vehicle, but quite possible to cycle it.

Worcestershire, a guide to the county's places of interest and attractions, including a history of Royal Worcester porcelain. Shire Books, £5.99 ISBN 0 7478 0311 0 - buy from Amazon.co.uk

Haunted Pubs and Hotels of Worcester and Its Borders Hunt End Books, ISBN 095194813X. Buy from Amazon.co.uk.

More Curiousities of Worcestershire Ann Moore - self-published via EyeLevel Books, ISBN 1902528 11 5.

Buildings of England - Worcestershire Nikolaus Pevsner. Buy from Amazon.co.uk (market place).

Herefordshire and Worcestershire's Lost Railways Stenlake Publishing. July 04. ISBN 1840333138.

Bookshops

Chapel Books in Chepstow has pages on Worcestershire and Herefordshire - secondhand/old books for the genealogist and local historian.

Castle Hill Books (mainly old books) keeps a range of new Herefordshire books in stock including Mid Border Books titles on Kington. 12 Church Street, Kington, Herefordshire, HR5 3AZ, email: info@castlehillbooks.co.uk

For Shropshire walking and landscape titles, there's Powney's Bookshop incorporating The Shropshire Map Centre, in Shrewsbury. Phone 01743 369165.

Best Walks website has a wide range of walking titles available, including sections on Herefordshire and the Malverns; Worcestershire.

Publishers of local titles

Beacon Hill House, the imprint of Beacon Books in Malvern, has published The Malvern Hills and Westward, a photo essay, Sept 02. £18-95 for hardback, £12-95 paperback (ISBN 0 95429690 0 4). Email them at: beaconbooks@aol.com and say you arrived via MalvernTrail.

Border Trails - web site disappeared summer 03. For travel in The Marches: Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Powys by bike, horse, foot, car. "Information that you need to plan your day and explore the hidden places", but seem to have only produced info for Kington area.

Bromyard & District Local History Society The sort of topics you'd expect: hop picking, churches, round and about.

Cappella Archive, based in Great Malvern, produce 'Books on Demand', short-run publications, and reproductions of old titles which include:

Malvern Chase by W.S.Symonds. The Wars of the Roses and Battle of Tewkesbury. First published 1880, ISBN 0-9525308-8-0.

Hanley Castle by W.S.Symonds. The English Civil War and Battle of Worcester. First published 1883, ISBN 0-9525308-9-9.

Of Apples and Serpents, Mike Knight. A Herefordshire Cider Saga. Published May 1998, ISBN 0-9525308-6-4

All Things Concidered: Sketches from a Worcestershire Cider House. ISBN 0-9525308-1-3

Aspect Design is another local producer of short-run publications. Titles include Donkeys Years on the Malvern Hills and Malvern: Hill of Fountains, both by Rose Garrard, and others from/about villages around Worcestershire.

Countryside Books Walking guides (long distance, pub based, official and more), plus Cycle Rides, The Herefordshire Village Book (based on WI notes), and others. Lost Railways in Herefordshire and Worcestershire (Nov. 2002) by Leslie Oppitz.

Countryside Matters is based near Tewkesbury, and publish walking guides for the Three Counties.

Crown House Press Based in Clifton-upon-Teme. Memories of a Herefordshire Farmer is an audio archive.

Cyder Press is a small press established by the University of Gloucestershire as an extension of its Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre.

Folly Publications County books on castles and churches, by Mike Salter. Titles include The Old Parish Churches of Worcestershire. Folly Cottage, 151 West Malvern Road, Malvern, Worcs, WR14 4AY.

Halfshire Books (web site disappeared autumn 06) Worcestershire local history publishers, 130New Rd, Bromsgrove. Email: sales@halfshire.co.uk (possibly).

Logaston Press History, social history, archaeology and walking guides to central and southern Wales and rural West Midlands. Titles include Ledbury: A Medieval Borough, A Ross Anthology, Dore Abbey, Churches of Herefordshire, Herefordshire Folklore (autumn 2002: ISBN 187382758X, £12-95). Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herefordshire, HR3 6QH. Email: info@logastonpress.co.uk

Meridian Books. 40 Hadzor Road, Oldbury B68 9LA. Phone 0121 429 4397. See BestWalks list of titles.

Reardon Publishing A few cycling titles, plus walking, local history and guides for the Cotswolds and its fringes.

Shropshire Books is (or was?) run by the council. At Sept 06 can't find any info on the web. Was (is?) at 7 London Road, Shrewsbury, SY2 6NW. Phone 01743 255043.

Sutton Publishing carries books by Fred Archer, a Gloucestershire/Bredon Hill farmer whose titles include A Hill Called Bredon and A Lad of Evesham Vale. HayDays, the final book written just before he died in 1999, recreates the hard times and the joys of the year 1924 - buy from Amazon.co.uk. Sutton Publishing, Phoenix Mill, Thrupp, Stroud, Glos, GL5 2BU. Email: sales@sutton-publishing.co.uk

Tanners Yard Press, a small company in Gloucestershire publishing photographic books, has some local titles on the Forest of Dean.