About BBR

BBR is owned and managed by Chris Reed and Amanda Thompson. We’ve been in thrall to the dissemination of the printed word all our working lives, with Chris designing and producing student magazines in the late 1980s, and together running a ground-breaking small press in the pre-Internet era. Chris was also responsible for setting up and running the in-house graphic design office of a Russell Group university in the early 1990s. That experience of four-colour production and sensitivity to the needs of the academic and research community, combined with our passion for effective communication, makes BBR uniquely qualified to understand and respond to the challenges faced by publishers, universities and NGOs involved in the production of books, journals, reports and other long-form publications.

We produce award-winning books

2024

Sacrament an Alter: The Sacrament of the Altar – A Critical Edition with Translation

University of Exeter Press (2022)

Winner, Holyer an Gof Award (Non-Fiction)

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2022

The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763–1765

The Boydell Press for the Devon and Cornwall Record Society (2020)

Winner, Devon History Society Book of the Year (Academic)

Ancient and High Crosses of Cornwall: Cornwall’s Earliest, Tallest and Finest Medieval Stone Crosses

University of Exeter Press (2021)

Winner, Holyer an Gof Award (Leisure and Lifestyle)

2020

Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady Betty Cobbe’s ‘Peacock’ China

The Boydell Press (2019)

Winner, American Ceramic Circle Book Award

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2018

Two of the top five regional bird atlases of the previous ten years were produced by BBR, as judged by British Birds magazine and the British Trust for Ornithology:

The Breeding Birds of North Wales

Liverpool University Press (2013)

2nd, BB/BTO Best Local Bird Atlas 2007–17

The Birds of Gloucestershire

Liverpool University Press (2013)

5th, BB/BTO Best Local Bird Atlas 2007–17

2016

The Basque Country and Navarre

Bradt Travel Guides (2016)

Winner, British Guild of Travel Writers Best Guidebook of the Year

2015

Poder y escritura femenina en tiempos del Conde-Duque de Olivares (1621–1643)

Tamesis Books (2015)

Co-Winner, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Publication Prize