Author Talk

We are delighted to be supporting this event at St George's: 

Professor David Olusoga OBE, BAFTA winning film-maker and author returns to St Georges due to popular demand.

In a brand-new talk for 2025 David examines some of history’s missing chapters to uncover how and why some events and some people are remembered and others forgotten. Taking examples from the world wars, the Industrial revolution and other pivotal moments in global history David uncovers history’s missing persons.

Dinosaurs, Darwin and the war between science and religion 
We are delighted to support the Bristol Humanists' Emma Martin Lecture 2025

Book here: https://wegottickets.com/event/671906/

In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain’s southern shoreline and so sparked a crisis that would engulf science and religion for the next six decades. That little girl Mary Anning, an amateur geologist, shook the establishment. By the end of the 19th century, the literal reading of the bible had been overturned, science had been liberated from religion and the secular age had begun. Impossible Monsters takes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women whose discovery of the dinosaurs revolutionised our understanding of the world, as well as those who resisted them, and those like Charles Darwin, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth’s and mankind’s origins. It is the riveting story of a group of people who dared to think impossible things and then showed them to be true.

We are delighted to support this event organised by Penguin Random House and GAIL's Bakeries

Full details and tickets available from Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-with-rachel-joyce-tickets-1561609298449

Step into the cosy charm of GAIL’s Bakery for an inspiring afternoon with bestselling author Rachel Joyce, as part of our Great Reads Collection in association with Heron Books . Rachel will share the story behind her latest novel, The Homemade God, offering candid insights into her creative process, the joys and challenges of writing, and the imaginative world she brings to life.