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  • Jo Leevers: The Last Time I Saw You

    Heron Books 7a Regent Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Join us to celebrate The Last Time I Saw You by Jo Leevers

    Jo Leevers grew up in London and began writing fiction after a career in magazine journalism. Her bestselling debut, Tell Me How This Ends, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice. Whether writing fiction or interviewing people for articles, she is fascinated by the stories and secrets that we all carry with us. She has two grown-up children and lives with her husband and their wayward dog, Lottie, in Bristol.

    Tickets include a glass of wine on arrival. Tickets are £4 or free with the purchase of The Last Time I Saw You.
    Tickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.
    Book orders will be available to collect and get signed at the event.

    £4.00 – £8.99

  • A Night of Black Queer Literature

    RWA Royal West of England Academy, Queen's Road, Bristol

    The RWA hosts: To Read: A night of Black Queer Literature

    Heron Books is delighted to support this event. 
    As a farewell celebration, Kiki Bristol* will present an evening of readings and literature, with space for people to listen, reflect and connect.

    The evening will be hosted by Kiki’s Dr Myles-Jay Linton and music will be provided by Kiki co-founder DJ Devolicious. The event will also include a facilitated panel discussion with the performers:
    Travis Alabanza
    Jackson King
    Dr Okechukwu Nzelu

    You are welcome to join - whether you identify as an LGBTQ person of colour or not. However this event does aim to particularly encourage attendance from people who have traditionally felt marginalised from arts institutions such as RWA. In keeping with RWA policy and ethos, no racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other –ism or schism will be tolerated.

  • Bristol Humanists: Rebecca Nesbitt

    Unitarian Meeting Hall Brunswick Square, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Tickets for the Ark; why conservationists needs philosophy

    Science and ecology communicator Rebecca Nesbitt explores the underlying, largely invisible, philosophy and values which sit beneath wildlife conservation.

    A central dilemma of wildlife conservation is setting priorities to inform where limited funds are best spent.
    Can we be guided by science alone? Or do we also need philosophy to help us protect the natural world?

    Rebecca will speak about her exploration of these questions & the effect it has had on her work on conservation for the benefit of all animals, including humans.

  • Orla Owen: Christ on a Bike

    Heron Books 7a Regent Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Join us to celebrate Christ On A Bike by Orla Owen

    Orla Owen was born in Belfast, and raised in Ireland and the UK. Christ On A Bike, published by the award winning Bluemoose Books, has been described as ‘strikingly original and utterly brilliant’. It was picked as a recommended read by Nina Pottell from Prima Magazine, who reviewed it as ‘Black Mirror meets Tales of The Unexpected with shades of Shirley Jackson’ and was recommended as a read for January by Martin Chilton, The Independent’s Chief Book Critic.

    Tickets include a glass of wine on arrival. Tickets are £5 or free with the purchase of Christ On A Bike.
    Tickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.
    Book orders will be available to collect and get signed at the event.

    £5.00 – £9.99

  • Susie Alegre: Human Rights, Robot Wrongs

    Unitarian Meeting Hall Brunswick Square, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Heron Books is supporting the Bristol Humanists' Emma Martin Lecture 

    Human Rights, Robot Wrongs - being human in the age of AI
    Susie Alegre, barrister & human rights lawyer

    Susie Alegre will explore the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights - including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression - and how we protect those rights. Susie will touch on the many profound ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies, and illustrate these through a number of case studies.

    This is a ticketed event, price £5 (full) or £3 (concession). Tickets available here https://www.wegottickets.com/event/630501 in advance. Note that if you are a member of Bristol Humanists you will receive an email with discount code.

  • Jan Carson – University of Bristol

    Arts Complex, University of Bristol Arts Complex Woodland Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Heron Books will be at the University of Bristol, with stacks of books by the brilliant Jan Carson, winner of the EU Prize for Literature Jan will be giving a reading and a Q&A, organised by the English department. Not to be missed! You can order Quickly, While They Still Have Horses or The Raptures through the links and we will bring them to the event or send us an email (read heronbooks.co.uk) to reserve a copy at the event. Tuesday, 15 October, 3-4 p.m., 1.H020 Humanities Research Space, Woodland Road, BS8 1TB

  • Brian Bilston & Henry Normal

    St George's, Bristol St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Brian Bilston and Henry Normal appear together for the first time in a show which one critic has described as “two people reading some poems”. Along the way, they will be drawing on their vast catalogue of crowd favourites – and throwing in new poems, to prevent becoming their own tribute bands. We are delighted to be supporting this event at St George's, Bristol. Look forward to seeing you there! Full details and tickets here: https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/brian-bilston-henry-normal/

  • Brad Evans

    Clifton Library 13 Princess Victoria St, Bristol, United Kingdom

    How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland

    Heron Books is delighted to support this event with author Brad Evans hosted by the Friends of Clifton Centre and Library 

    How Black Was My Valley is a people's history of the former mining communities of South Wales. Weaving together the personal with the political, it offers a damning depiction of the hardship and suffering, the tragedy and pain, as a politically abandoned people went from powering the British Empire and the Great Wars, to a broken post-industrial community, lost in time. It travels with devastating and yet humane insight across the dark shadows of the valley’s history.

  • Ultimate Dinosaurs with Ben Garrod

    Tobacco Factory Theatre The Tobacco Factory, Raleigh Rd, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Ultimate Dinosaurs is the hit sold-out stage show starring dinosaur aficionado Professor Ben Garrod. Get ready to go on an exciting pre-historic adventure as Ben talks you through the deadliest predators that ever roamed the planet.  Yes dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex,  Allosaurus and Spinosaurus would have walked or swam right where you are now!
    30th October - 2nd November, 11am and 2pm each day for one hour. 

  • Noreen Masud – A Flat Place

    Clifton Library 13 Princess Victoria St, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Lizzie will be interviewing Noreen Masud as part of Clifton LitFest 2024, organised by the Friends of the Clifton Centre and Library.

    Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award 2024, Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place has been described as raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain.

  • Poetry and Science with Michael Malay, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton

    Bristol Folk House 40a Park St, Bristol

    Poetry and Science - the unbridgeable divide that doesn't exist
    featuring Michael Malay, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton

    Bristol Humanists and Heron Books invite you to:

    A mid-winter social, discussion and performance, with 3 very special guests, exploring the unbridgeable divide - that doesn't exist - between poetry and science.

    https://wegottickets.com/event/638412 

  • Growing up Human with Dr Brenna Hassett

    Bristol Folk House 40a Park St, Bristol

    We are delighted to support this event organised by the Bristol Humanists. Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us – our uniquely long childhoods. In the Darwin Day lecture Brenna Hassett will look at how we have diverged from our ancestral roots to stay 'forever young' – or at least what seems like forever – and how the evolution of childhood is a critical part of the human story. Full details and tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/643698