Welcome
Heron Books took flight earlier in 2025 from our original home in The Clifton Arcade.
Find us in our new(ish) heronry at 7a Regent Street, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4HW.
The shop stocks a range of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books, 4000 of them in a carefully planned cosy space. Heron Books offers personal recommendations and the creation of bespoke gift lists for special occasions, and runs events, including a monthly poetry series and several book groups. Where not already on the shelves, books can be ordered for home delivery by Royal Mail and, if you live really nearby, staff can exceptionally cycle over to deliver them personally.
The shop is a welcoming space. We like nothing more than talking about books; if the book in question features a heron, all the better.
Opening Hours
Monday-Saturday: 9.30am-5.30pm
Sunday: 11am-4pm
7a Regent Street
Clifton, Bristol
BS8 4HW
0117 401 1717
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News
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Flush With Books – 4 September 2026
This is a huge week in publishing. In fact, between now and C*******s the schedule is relentless. There are hundreds of new releases jostling for our attention. Myriad more on the way. Many of them make compelling cases to be read urgently. Perhaps I can skip Rowdy Girl: Confessions of a Vegan Cattle Rancher and…
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No News is Bad News – 28 August 2026
Travelling in the Rwandan countryside after the 2010 ‘election,’ the journalist Anjan Sundaram comes across a scene of devastation: huts with their roofs ripped off and burnt, more huts torn down – it looks like the aftermath of a war. Yet nearby are bunches of grass thatch which could be used to rebuild and the…
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Diary of a Provincial Bookseller – 21 August 2026
Dear Reader/Diary, 14 August: pop into charity shop, just for a look, whilst waiting to meet someone. Catch myself alphabetising the poetry books. Emerge with armful of Virago paperbacks from a time when they could design covers and a hardback edition of T** W***** o* T***** (redacted in case I give it to Harry; note:…
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Amor Ardearum – 14 August 2026
Let’s play: Poetry blurb or Sopranos episode?* ‘The life of a deeply flawed individual… The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition.’‘Despairing, vengeful and destructive… unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded… works of great artistic purity…’‘Encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted…
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Twenty-Eight Days Later – 7 August 2026
You have twenty-eight days until you can read the book that I think you must read. You may need that long to prepare yourself mentally and physically, to clear your schedule of all distractions, to limber up and get your sturdier tote bag ready – at 640 pages it weighs 842 grams – and to…
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Going to the Dogs – 31 July 2026
Had you told me that I would find all that’s good in humanity at the racetracks in January in nineties County Durham, I may have been a little doubtful. But Louise Powell’s novel Underdogs offers just that. Admittedly there are a fair number of fights, dirty dealings and no small element of tragedy yet the…