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Bruce Garrard - photo: Alex O'Neal

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Bruce Garrard has been working and trading under the name 'Unique Publications' since 1985. Click here for brief biography and CV.

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Interesting things keep happening ... Click here for the latest.

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This is the Unique Publications back catalogue. Click here to see details and to buy books and booklets.

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Thirty years of community magazines ... Glastonbury has been exceptionally productive in this field. Click here to see the list, and to buy original copies where available or photocopied facsimiles if not.

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Writers based in Glastonbury cover a remarkably eclectic range of subjects. Click here to visit Unique Publications' on-line local bookshop.

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It's a random collection, but they all seemed worth saving and reading again. Click here to see the Contents Page, and from there go to the articles themselves.

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From Enterprise Allowance Scheme to Glastonbury High Street, then to a mellower existence out of the limelight. Click here for the story.

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The historic building behind Glastonbury High Street where Unique Publications now has its office. Click here for history and other details.

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THE LATEST FROM
UNIQUE PUBLICATIONS:

This is Bruce Garrard’s fourth book about the River Brue and related matters. The ‘River Brue Rehabilitation Board’ was open in Glastonbury for 18 months, from November 2019 to May 2021. This book grew out of it. It’s about the river, and lots of other stuff too – whatever seemed worth noting down that was interesting during that time. Some of it you will certainly remember.
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"My enjoyment of this book was at times worrying and I recommend it to those who do not have a natural affinity to wearing anoraks."            – Glastonbury Oracle

​The title came from Dr Hugh Sharp, a former Glastonbury Town Councillor.
Currently there is controversy and debate about this road, with major disagreements as to how the excessive heavy traffic should be dealt with. I felt that a history from ‘the beginning of roads’ up to the second world war – stopping short of recent politics – would help to provide a useful perspective.

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"Wonderfully moving ...  Thank you so much for ‘Conversations’ which I will treasure.  It merges your seasonal observations with a lament for the world and a glimpse of hope: 'Spirit of the River, how wonderful that you do not despair'. And the photographs are stunning in their evocation of the Brue’s atmosphere."                                         – KR

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This is Bruce Garrard’s first novel, and in a sense it grew out of the earlier work about the River Brue. It tells the story of his character Petroc and the brotherhood of Glastonbury monks, as they struggle to maintain their culture and their spiritual traditions in a world that is radically changing. It also explores the early, Celtic period of the monastery’s story in a way which goes beyond the scope of conventional historical or archaeological research.

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The River Brue and the River Axe

The impetus for this book came from the Kogis' film 'Aluna', with its key message that we must look after our rivers. It documents my mission to make a real connection with my local river, the Brue in Somerset, which in former times joined the River Axe.

There are two parts: an account of a walk from the source of the Brue to the mouth of the Axe, and a history of the river and its human context. There is also a section of colour photographs that cover the length of the original river course as it looks today.

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The history of Glastonbury's alternative community, and its growth since the late 1960s when the first 'flower people' began to arrive in the fabled Vale of Avalon. Today perhaps a third of the town's population, and more than a third of its High Street shops, have come as part of this extraordinary influx. Here is the full story of the last 45 years or so, fully illustrated.
Now re-printed, with revisions.

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Published 2013:
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The story of the occupation of the UK's second proposed cruise missile site, retold in vivid detail. It was during the Rainbow Village's eventual eviction from Molesworth that Michael Heseltine appeared, wearing his ludicrous and infamous flak jacket.

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Published 2011:

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A fascinating exploration of palaeolithic sexual politics (amongst other things), looking at how patriarchy, along with oppressive social structures and warfare, came about - a question that the academic establishment has failed to answer.

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UNIQUE PUBLICATIONS
GO BACK TO THE OCCUPATION OF MOLESWORTH CRUISE MISSILE SITE AND THE STONEHENGE CAMPAIGNS,
IN THE 1980's
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GLASTONBURY ARCHIVES
INCLUDE:
GLASTONBURY TORC (1970s)
GLASTONBURY COMMUNICATOR (1980s)
TIMES of AVALONIA (1980s)
FREE STATE (1998-2001)


Now available:
THE GLASTONBURY THORN (1979/80)
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THE LATEST ADDITIONS FROM
GLASTONBURY AUTHORS: 

E.J.FRANCES - HER DEBUT NOVEL
'THE RISING OF THE SUN'
PALDEN JENKINS -
'PICTURES OF PALESTINE'
JON COUSINS -
'THE GLASTONBURY DOCUMENTS'

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ARTICLES
INCLUDE:
GREENHAM COMMON WOMEN'S PEACE CAMP (1981)
BUILDING THE PYRAMID STAGE FOR GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL (1982)
SCRIPT FOR 'ROUTE & BRANCH'
ECO-PANTOMIME (1993)
THE GLASTONBURY GREEN MAN GATHERING (2001)
SOLAR POWER AND THE FEED IN TARIFF (2011)
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