Glastonbury Book News
Just published – The ‘Crap Views of the Tor’ Postcard Book. Plus, the ‘Normal For Glastonbury’ paperback is now available worldwide.
Fiction & Humour
Glastonbury Town in Somerset UK has inspired many writers, here you’ll find fiction and humorous articles based on Glastonbury.
Glastonbury Town Takes Vegan Pledge
Glastonbury Town is the first town in Britain to sign the Vegan Town Pledge, intending to go fully vegan by Spring 2023.
‘People of the Tor’, the Art World and a bloke called Dave
An interview with Glastonbury based writer Guy Kennaway on The Accidental Collector, his latest book about a penniless Glastonbury hippy who gets mistaken for a billionaire art collector.
Crap Views of the Tor
Of all the stuff I post on the Normal For Glastonbury Facebook page, my ‘Crap Views of the Tor’ series has been the most surprising success. In fact it seems that people love the idea so much they’ve been submitting their own to the page. Here are a few of my favourites.
Glastonbury Town by Andy Brady
Origins Ask any resident of the English town of Glastonbury where they are most likely to be living, and many of them will quickly tell you that Glastonbury is very high on their list of number one answers. What is it about this particular town that draws so many of its citizens to count themselves … Read more
Un-Avalon – Crap Postcards of Glastonbury
Many moons ago I spotted Glastonbury Tor from the Levels out towards Shapwick. What would have been a picture postcard perfect scene was ruined by a large and unsightly, rusting piece of peat processing machinery. I took a photo anyway. Since then I’ve got into the perverse habit of deliberately taking the kind of photos that would never make it into a Glastonbury tourist guide.
Glastonbury Abbey by Andy Brady
The 100% true history of Glastonbury’s Abbey, courtesy of guest writer Andy Brady.
Halloween in Glastonbury
Another in Andy Brady’s uselessly informative posts. This one is all about Halloween, when the veil between the worlds is thin and the squirrels are ferocious.
New Light on Glastonbury Tor
A Guest Post by Andy Brady that brings new light to the Glastonbury Tor story, it’s history, geology and mythology. Origins Originally built during the last ice age, Glastonbury Tor has long since been guiding Somerset’s farm ships around the dangerous, craggy buildings of the nearby town of Glastonbury where, even today, the local inhabitants … Read more
Glastonbury in Fiction
Nothing transports you to Glastonbury like a good book, here’s a list of all the fiction set in Glastonbury Town that I could find.
Who Stole Glastonbury Co-op’s Giant Magnet?
The Co-op has always exerted a strange and inexorable pull on my solar plexus, as if a huge and powerful magnet lurked behind the shelves. Lately it’s as if the magnet has been tuned off. What’s happened? I investigate!
A Little Glastonbury Mystery
I felt a bit sorry for these lost letters, all jumbled up and meaningless in a heap. Of course my next thought, this being Glastonbury, was that they must ‘mean’ something
