The Ghosts Of The Blue Bowl

By Emma L James

A warm, witty ghost story inspired by the real history of Hanham's Blue Bowl pub - where a new manager discovers that not every regular needs to be alive.

Some pubs keep old photographs. The Blue Bowl keeps the people in them.

Annie's first week managing the Blue Bowl should be about suppliers, broken hand dryers and regulars who believe their tables are inherited property. Instead, glasses move on their own, old photographs refuse to stay put, and her late grandfather settles into his favourite chair as though death were no reason to miss last orders.
A mysterious blue bowl begins showing Annie glimpses of the people who came before: old landlords, potters, families and customers whose lives became woven into the pub. As she separates documented history from Cock Road legends, disputed photographs and colourful local memory, she discovers why the Blue Bowl has meant so much to Hanham for generations.
Then a modern refurbishment threatens to tidy away everything that makes the old pub itself. With the regulars at the bar and generations of ghosts at her shoulder, Annie must find a way to let the Blue Bowl move forward without erasing its past.
Warm, witty and gently supernatural, The Ghosts of the Blue Bowl blends a contemporary ghost story with real local history in a celebration of pubs, people and the stories that refuse to disappear.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ1WGGVF
• ISBN13: 9798172470110
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"