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SUMMARY:Growing up Human with Dr Brenna Hassett
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to support this event organised by the Bristol Humanists. \nTracking 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. \nFull details and tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/643698
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/growing-up-human-with-dr-brenna-hassett/
LOCATION:Bristol Folk House\, 40a Park St\, Bristol\, BS1 5JG
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Science with Michael Malay\, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Science – the unbridgeable divide that doesn’t exist\n  \nfeaturing Michael Malay\, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton\nBristol 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. \nhttps://wegottickets.com/event/638412 \n– Michael Malay – is the Winner of the 2024 Wainwright Prize for nature writing for his book Late Light; he teaches English and Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol \n– Rebecca Nesbit – is a biologist and ecologist at Plymouth University; author of popular science books Tickets for the Ark and Is That Fish in Your Tomato? Rebecca is also a poet\, novelist and painter \n– Bob Walton – is a poet and educator; his books include Sax Burglar Blues\, as well as featuring in numerous anthologies; he is currently writing about earthworms\, and runs poetry events in Bristol and online\, including the monthly poetry night Under the Red Guitar \nIncreasingly\, science is seen as the answer to all questions\, problems & woes. But is it really omnicompetent? Poetry is seen as subjective\, but can it can teach us as much about the natural world as the ‘hard’ and objective sciences? \nMichael\, Rebecca & Bob will explore these different views and approaches\, why we hold them\, and the differing ways that science and creativity can share\, express & communicate understandings. \nMichael\, who uses his creative work to explore migration\, belonging and extinction will be in conversation with Rebecca\, who is researching the behaviour of fish communities\, communicating the insights gained with policy-makers and the fishing community\, and with Bob\, whose work encompasses the natural world. \nAll three will be reading from their work\, as well as exploring together the ‘unbridgeable divide’. \nThis promises to be a very special night! \nThis event is jointly promoted by Bristol Humanists and Heron Books. There will be a bookstall run by Heron Books\, with books from all three guests on sale. \nFood & Drink\nThe cafe/bar will be open beforehand from 6.45pm\, throughout the event and afterwards\, and hot food will be available\, if ordered in advance. Please contact Folk House on folkhousecafe@gmail.com to find out what food is on offer and to place your order Soft drinks\, alcohol and hot drinks will be available throughout. The event itself will start at 7.30pm. \nWe are sorry that the Folk House is not fully accessible. For more details check here https://www.bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/contact-us#venue
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-and-science/
LOCATION:Bristol Folk House\, 40a Park St\, Bristol\, BS1 5JG
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Noreen Masud – A Flat Place
DESCRIPTION:Lizzie will be interviewing Noreen Masud as part of Clifton LitFest 2024\, organised by the Friends of the Clifton Centre and Library. \nShortlisted 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. \nNoreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes – their stark beauty\, their formidable calm\, their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world: the ‘flat place’ she carries inside herself\, emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma. Robert MacFarlane called it ‘sharp\, subtle and very moving’. Masud is a Lecturer in 20th Century Literature\, University of Bristol\, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. \nTickets available using the Eventbrite link.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/noreen-masud-a-flat-place/
LOCATION:Clifton Library\, 13 Princess Victoria St\, Bristol\, BS8 4BX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Ultimate Dinosaurs with Ben Garrod
DESCRIPTION: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! \nPitting the knowledge of unwitting parents against their all-knowing kids\, Professor Ben presents an interactive\, educational and highly entertaining show.  So come and test your knowledge against Professor Ben in this hit live interactive show which is bigger and better than ever. \nHeron Books cannot wait for this brilliant show from local author\, academic\, conservationist and companion of Jack the dog\, Professor Ben Garrod. There are eight shows over half-term at the Tobacco Factory and we will be there with Ben’s books on extinct creatures\, chimpanzees and his rescue of Jack\, the original dog. \n30th October – 2nd November\, 11am and 2pm each day for one hour. \nAimed primarily at Key Stage 1 and 2 (ages 5-12) but suitable for all ages. 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/ultimate-dinosaurs-with-ben-garrod/
LOCATION:Tobacco Factory Theatre\, The Tobacco Factory\, Raleigh Rd\, Bristol\, BS3 1TF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Stage show
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SUMMARY:Brad Evans
DESCRIPTION:How Black Was My Valley : Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland\nHeron Books is delighted to support this event with author Brad Evans hosted by the Friends of Clifton Centre and Library \nHow 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. \nIn doing so\, it deals with disaster and resistance; memory and landscapes of despair; the brutal past and the neglected present; hardship and poverty; unemployment and isolation; lack of opportunity and the normalisation of hopelessness; death and suffering; structural violence and everyday subjugation; onto the crises of white male subjectivity and the exponential rise in drug abuse and personal suicide\, whose troubling effects can no longer be easily contained within its mountainous walls. This is not a story of resilience. Instead\, readers are taken on a journey into an open wound\, whose once silent screams can no longer be ignored. \nBar opens: 18.30\nBrad’s talk commences: 19.00\nFollowed by Q&A and book signing\nhttps://foccal.com/event/238
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/brad-evans/
LOCATION:Clifton Library\, 13 Princess Victoria St\, Bristol\, BS8 4BX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Brian Bilston & Henry Normal
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe are delighted to be supporting this event at St George’s\, Bristol. Look forward to seeing you there! \nFull details and tickets here: https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/brian-bilston-henry-normal/
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/brian-bilston-henry-normal/
LOCATION:St George’s\, Bristol\, St George’s Bristol\, Great George Street\, Bristol\, BS1 5RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jan Carson - University of Bristol
DESCRIPTION: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 \nJan will be giving a reading and a Q&A\, organised by the English department. Not to be missed! \nYou 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. \nTuesday\, 15 October\, 3-4 p.m.\, 1.H020 Humanities Research Space\, Woodland Road\, BS8 1TB
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/jan-carson-university-of-bristol/
LOCATION:Arts Complex\, University of Bristol\, Arts Complex Woodland Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Susie Alegre: Human Rights\, Robot Wrongs
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to be supporting the Bristol Humanists’ Emma Martin Lecture \nHuman Rights\, Robot Wrongs – being human in the age of AI\nSusie Alegre\, barrister & human rights lawyer\n \nIn her first book\, Freedom to Think\, Susie Alegre explored the history of legal freedoms around what we think. In her new book\, she has now turned her attention to the role of artificial intelligence in our lives. No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future\, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives\, from how we think to who we love. \nSusie 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. \n“Eye-opening… acknowledging the fallibility of machines and the need to hold those responsible for harm to account …” – Marina Wheeler\, New Statesman\n“Alegre’s sharp legal brain conjures up the wicked problems of AI and provides a legal blueprint for humanity’s survival. Utterly brilliant.” ― Baroness Helena Kennedy\n“This is a thought-provoking\, challenging\, and very humane book\, which in an ideal world would be required reading in every Silicon Valley boardroom” ― Michael Wooldridge \nSusie Alegre is a leading international human rights lawyer & barrister who has worked for NGOs like Amnesty International and international organisations\, such as the UN\, around the world. She is currently a Member of the Commission for Control of Interpol’s Files and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)\, as well as a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. She has been a legal pioneer in the field of digital rights. Susie’s first book\, Freedom to Think\, received wide acclaim\, was chosen as a Book of the Year 2022 by the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph\, and longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing and shortlisted for the Christopher Bland Prize. She is a patron of Humanists UK. \nEmma Martin was Bristol’s most important freethinker\, feminist and human rights campaigner. In her short life (1812-1851)\, she went from committed Christian to outspoken atheist/freethinker working for the Owenites\, speaking to thousands and publishing pamphlets on the role of the church and on women’s rights. Later on she trained as a midwife and campaigned on reproductive rights. She has a blue plaque dedicated to her in Bridewell Street\, and annually Bristol Humanists celebrate her life with this special talk. \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/susie-alegre-human-rights-robot-wrongs/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Orla Owen: Christ on a Bike
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Christ On A Bike by Orla Owen\n  \nWe are delighted to host Orla Owen to celebrate her latest novel\, Christ On A Bike. \nCerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached. Three simple rules that must be followed. \nAs she settles into her new life\, she begins to feel trapped: the past is ever-present. She convinces herself that the villagers are watching her and\, desperate to control her own future\, she tries to break free… \nOrla 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. \nBefore she was a writer\, Orla was an actress and drama practitioner\, studying Theatre at Bretton Hall College of the Arts\, and from a young age\, she knew she wanted to be a storyteller. \nTickets include a glass of wine on arrival. Tickets are £5 or free with the purchase of Christ On A Bike.\nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the book on the night.\nBook orders will be available to collect and get signed at the event.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/orla-owen-christ-on-a-bike/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Bristol Humanists: Rebecca Nesbitt
DESCRIPTION:Tickets for the Ark; why conservationists needs philosophy\nScience and ecology communicator Rebecca Nesbitt explores the underlying\, largely invisible\, philosophy and values which sit beneath wildlife conservation. \nA central dilemma of wildlife conservation is setting priorities to inform where limited funds are best spent.\nCan we be guided by science alone? Or do we also need philosophy to help us protect the natural world? \nRebecca 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. \nOf her recent book Tickets for the Ark New Scientist said\, “This is an ambitious and entertaining book\, which foresees a dynamic and creative role for conservation in the future.” \nRebecca will speak about her journey as a wildlife conservationist\, how philosophy and her understanding of colonialism and patriarchy\, both change and redirect her work. \nDr Rebecca Nesbit is author of Tickets for the Ark\, which tackles tough choices in wildlife conservation. Using case studies from around the world\, the book challenges some of our deeply held views about what the natural world should look like. \nRebecca studied butterfly migration for her PhD\, then worked for a start-up company training honeybees to detect explosives. She now works in science communication and her projects have ranged from a citizen science flying ant survey to visiting universities around the world with Nobel Prize Laureates. Her first popular science book Is That Fish in your Tomato? explores the fact and fiction of GM foods. \nAll are welcome\, whether Bristol Humanists member\, or not. The event is FREE if you are a member\, or £3/£1 if not.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/bristol-humanists-rebecca-nesbitt/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:A Night of Black Queer Literature
DESCRIPTION:The RWA hosts\nTo Read: A night of Black Queer Literature\nOn Thursday 18 July 2024\, 6.30pm\, Heron Books is delighted to support this event.\nAs a farewell celebration\, Kiki Bristol* will present an evening of readings and literature\, with space for people to listen\, reflect and connect. \nLine up: \nTravis Alabanza is an award-winning writer and theatre maker. Their book None of the Above won the Jhalak literary prize\, Somerset Maugham award and was listed in TIME Magazines top 100 books of 2023. \nJackson King is a cultural troublemaker\, writer and journalist. As a Bajan-Jamaican\, a trans man\, a bisexual\, and a BDSM practitioner born in ‘babylon’ (Britain)\, his work aims to build and destroy. Disrupting empire logics\, cisheteropatriarchy and the politics of purity – while nurturing Black\, queer and kink-affirming cultures\, King’s work has appeared across the BBC\, The Guardian\, The iPaper\, PinkNews\, Metro\, Dope Black Queers\, Gender Reveal and more. \nDr Okechukwu Nzelu is a Manchester-based writer. In 2015 he was the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award. His debut novel\, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney\, won a Betty Trask Award. His second novel\, Here Again Now\, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award\, the Polari Prize\, the Jhalak Prize and the Diverse Book Awards. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. \nThe 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. \nYou 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. \nLimited places available – book now to avoid disappointment! \nThis project has been supported by Bristol Pride Community Fund. \n* Kiki Bristol was founded in 2017\, as a community organisation providing space for QTIBPOC (Queer\, Trans\, Intersex\, Black People & People of Colour) and our friends/family to meet. \nPhoto credits: Alex Douglas & Griff Townsend \nTo Read: A night of Black Queer Literature
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/a-night-of-black-queer-literature/
LOCATION:RWA\, Royal West of England Academy\, Queen's Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1PX
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Jo Leevers: The Last Time I Saw You
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of The Last Time I Saw You \nby Jo Leevers\n  \nWe are delighted to host Jo Leevers to celebrate the publication of her second novel\, The Last Time I Saw You. \nShe’s waiting to become a mother – but first she has to find her own.  \nWeeks away from the birth of her first child\, Georgie should be enjoying the peace of her new life in the country\, but boredom has settled in and nerves are running high. A viral news story about the rescue of a missing child warms her heart until she sees the photo: the woman who found the child is her own mother\, Nancy\, who disappeared twenty years ago. \nHow could Nancy have abandoned her own children? Georgie needs to know before becoming a mother herself\, even if it means calling on her estranged brother Dan for support. As the siblings set off on a road trip towards the Scottish island where Nancy was last seen\, they don’t yet know that her side of the story has just as much heartache as their own. Caught between her new life and old secrets\, Georgie must make peace with the past. \nCan she and Dan unite to uncover the truth? And can piecing together Nancy’s story fix their broken family—or are some wounds too deep to heal? \nJo 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. \nTickets include a glass of wine on arrival. Tickets are £4 or free with the purchase of The Last Time I Saw You.\nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the The Last Time I Saw You on the night.\nBook orders will be available to collect and get signed at the event.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/jo-leevers-the-last-time-i-saw-you/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Amy Jeffs
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Amy Jeffs\, best-selling author and illustrator of Storyland and Wild\nBristol Centre for Medieval Studies are thrilled to host an interview with Sunday Times Bestselling Author Amy Jeffs. \nWe at Heron Books are huge fans of Amy Jeffs’ books are so excited to attend this event with stacks of her books for sale. \nDr Amy Jeffs is an author\, artist and medievalist. During her PhD in Art History at the University of Cambridge\, she co-convened a project researching medieval badges and pilgrim souvenirs at the British Museum. She then worked in the British Library’s department of Ancient\, Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts. Now a Somerset-based author\, she illustrates her books with print and paper cutout. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain was published in 2021. It was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Waterstones Book of the Month\, as well as being shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain was published in 2022. Its audiobook\, illustrated with 7 original songs\, was named Audiobook of the Week by the Guardian and the Times. \nThe interview will conclude with an audience-led Q&A\, with the opportunity to purchase copies of Storyland and Wild to be signed by Amy. \nFind Amy on Twitter as @amy_historia and on Instagram as @amyjeffs_author and you can listen to her perform songs she has composed inspired by medieval myths on Spotify.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/amy-jeffs/
LOCATION:St James’ Priory\, 1 Whitson Street\, Bristol\, BS1 3NZ
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Writers at the University of Bristol
DESCRIPTION:Writers’ Day:\nA full-day writers’ conference. Best-selling authors\, signings\, talks\, workshops\, manuscript help\, and mind-blowing speakers. \nHeron Books will be there with books to sell from many of our favourite local authors.  \nJoin us on Saturday 22 Jun 2024 at 10am for a day filled with creativity and inspiration. This event will take place at 7 Woodland Rd.  \nWriters from all backgrounds will come together: whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting out\, it’s an opportunity to enjoy a day devoted to your craft and to celebrate the power of prose and poetry. \nYou’ll hear from best-selling and emerging authors\, take part in workshops to increase your skill and stimulate your imagination\, hear speakers talk about the latest issues and ideas in writing\, and listen to those in the know discuss what they think about the future for publishing new work. There will also be a chance to be the first to hear the newest writing coming from our programmes\, to have feedback on your own writing given by our successful team of instructors and to attend the anthology launch from the Bristol Short Story Prize. \nParticipants include:\nJennie Godfrey\, author of The List of Suspicious Things\nNoreen Masud\, author of A Flat Place\nAsh Bond\, author of Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm\nJessica Moor\, author of Keeper\, discussing her latest novel Hold Back the Night\nCarrie Etter\, reading from her latest poetry collection\, Grief’s Alphabet\nAnd more…
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/a-celebration-of-writers-at-the-university-of-bristol/
LOCATION:7 Woodland Road\, 7 Woodland Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1TB
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Julian Baggini Faces The Music
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to support the Bristol Humanists’ summer solstice fundraiser and social. \nThe forces of Julian Baggini\, philosopher and writer\, combine with the musical talent of Inivisible Apples. \nCome and have fun\, listen to great music\, drink\, eat and chat and raise money for two very worthy causes. The Invisible Apples will play 2 unplugged sets from their album ‘The Golden Threads and Invisible Lights of Duka’\, and in between will be ‘in conversation’ with Julian Baggini about their collaboration\, how they create their work and why humans create music. \nInvisible Apples are a jazz duo\, comprising legendary Bristol pianist JOHN BAGGOTT\, best-known for his work with the likes of Portishead\, Massive Attack\, and most recently Robert Plant\, and PETE JUDGE on flugelhorn. Pete will be familiar from a host of leftfield contexts\, such as the mighty Get the Blessing and acoustic multi-instrumentalists Three Cane Whale. Together\, they have developed a unique rapport as an acoustic jazz duo\, with an approach that is spiritual\, passionate\, exploratory and meditative. The dexterity of John’s piano playing finds its perfect foil in Pete’s unmistakable plangency. They will play music from their album ‘The Golden Threads and Mystic Lights of Duka’\, and some other favourites too. \nJULIAN BAGGINI has written on various philosophical subjects including rationality\, identity\, food and atheism. He has written numerous books\, and regularly writes for magazines and newspapers including\, Prospect\, the Guardian\, the FT and the Wall Street Journal. At St Georges\, Bristol he hosts a regular public philosophy session ‘Philosophical Times’. He is a patron of Humanists UK. Julian has an abiding interest in creativity\, and has explored with musicians and others how they go about creating their art and what it means. Julian will be in conversation with Pete & John about their collaboration\, how they create their work\, and maybe even\, why humans create music & what the point of it is! \nWe will provide a bookstall selling Julian’s books. Invisible Apples CD will be on sale too. \nAll proceeds will go to Faith to Faithless* helpline and UNICEF Gaza Appeal. All presenters have waived their fees. \n* Faith to Faithless Helpline\, recently launched by Humanists UK supports people leaving high-control religions \nBuy your tickets from: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/616767
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/julian-baggini-faces-the-music/
LOCATION:Bristol Folk House\, 40a Park St\, Bristol\, BS1 5JG
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Music
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SUMMARY:Dave Mountjoy: Being With Cows
DESCRIPTION:How Nature Can Heal\n  \nJoin us for the launch of Being With Cows by Dave Mountjoy\n  \nBeing with Cows tells the heartbreaking\, heartfelt\, and ultimately\, transformational story of how one man\, shattered by the sudden death of his brother\, was helped to a place of acceptance and quiet joy through the presence and gentle stillness of his cows. It was a healing so deep and complete\, that he realised others would benefit from his experience and the idea for the ‘Being with Cows’ retreats was born; a retreat where everyone can benefit from ‘cowfulness’ and the quiet journey to a simpler way of being. \nAn inspirational story about grief\, family\, mindfulness and the healing power of nature\, Being with Cows is for anyone in search of inner peace and simplicity in an increasingly complex world. \nDave Mountjoy was born in rural Worcestershire in the UK and spent most of his childhood on his mum’s family farm. After leaving school\, he developed a passion for travel\, taking him to Israel\, Uganda and on explorations around the British Isles. Working as a volunteer for the RSPB\, his love and gratitude for the sheer majesty of the natural world was deepened by stays on nature reserves in England\, Scotland and Wales. He lives on a farm in the French Pyrenees with his partner Diana and their two boys. \nThe event will be chaired by Gill Farrer-Halls of The Literary Consultancy. \nTickets are free; please book to reserve your place below. \nYou can preorder the book here.\nBooks will be available for collection and signing at the event. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/dave-mountjoy-being-with-cows/
LOCATION:Sparks\, Bristol\, 78 Broadmead\, Bristol\, BS1 3DS
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Phoebe Stuckes and Rose Ruane – Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to launch Birding by Rose Ruane and Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes\n18.30\, Friday 10 May\, in the Clifton Arcade \nHeron Books is thrilled to host Phoebe Stuckes and Rose Ruane to celebrate their debut novels. We are huge fans of their writing – we’ve been lucky enough to read advance copies of their brilliant books – and can’t wait to hear from the authors themselves.\nPhoebe and Rose will be in conversation with Ash Bond\, author of Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm. \nDead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes \nThere is something creeping at the edge of your vision\, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All it would take is to let your mind wander\, to let it come into view. A young woman wakes after a house party with scratches and bruises – and a gap in her memory. \nAs the violent truth comes back to her – a series of events she struggles to name – her anger grows. Solace comes in the form of enigmatic\, captivating Helene\, who knows what the man at the party did\, has suffered at his hands too. An act of violence demands one in return and Helene is planning revenge. \nBut who can afford to ask for justice\, when the cost is murderously high? \nBirding by Rose Ruane \nIn a small seaside town\, autumn is edging into winter\, gulls ride winds over the waves\, and two women pass each other on the promenade\, as yet unaware of each other’s existence. In the nineties Lydia was a teen pop star\, posed half naked on billboards everywhere with a lollipop between her lips and no idea how to live\, letting the world happen to her. Now\, three decades later\, Lydia is less and less sure that what happened to her was in the least bit okay. The news cycle runs hot with #MeToo stories\, and a famous former lover has emerged with a self-serving apology\, asking her to forgive him. Suddenly\, the past is full of trapdoors she is desperately trying not to fall through. \nJoyce\, in middle age\, has never left home.She still lives with her mother Betty. With their matching dresses\, identical hairdos and makeup\, they are the local oddballs. Theirs is a life of unerring routine: the shops\, biscuits served on bone china plates\, dressing up for a gin and tonic on Saturday. Nice things. One misstep from Joyce can ruin Betty’s day; so Joyce treads carefully. She has never let herself think about a different kind of life. \nWith mordant wit and lyrical prose\, Birding asks if we can ever see ourselves clearly or if we are always the unreliable narrators of our own experiences. It is a story about the difference between responsibility and obligation\, unhealthy relationships and abusive ones\, third acts and last chances\, and two women trying to take flight on clipped wings. \nTickets include a glass of wine on arrival. Tickets are £5 or free with the purchase of Birding and/or Dead Animals.\nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be available to collect and get signed on the night.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/phoebe-stuckes-and-rose-ruane/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Alice Oswald and guests - Lyra Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to support an evening of poetry with Alice Oswald\, Caroline Bird and Rachel Long as part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2024. \nAlice Oswald has published 6 collections of poetry\, including Dart which won the TS Eliot Prize. A gardener and poet\, Alice Oswald lived and worked for many years at Dartington in Devon. She is the first female Professor of Poetry at Oxford\, and has particular interest in poetry as an oral tradition. \nRachel Long’s debut collection\, My Darling from the Lions was published by Picador in the UK\, in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection\, The Costa Book Award\, The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award\, The Rathbones Folio Prize\, and the Jhalak Prize Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour. \nCaroline Bird’s selected poems\, Rookie (2022)\, and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade. She won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2020\, and has been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the TS Eliot Prize\, the Costa Book Awards\, the Ted Hughes Award\, the Polari Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/alice-oswald-and-guests-lyra-festival/
LOCATION:St George’s\, Bristol\, St George’s Bristol\, Great George Street\, Bristol\, BS1 5RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Caribbean Nights - Lyra Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books will be bookselling at this fascinating event\, part of the Lyra Poetry Festival \nhttps://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/12523/caribbean-nights-poetry \nIn the 1980s the UK had little idea of the wealth of poetry coming from the Caribbean. In 1986\, the BBC’s thought-provoking Arena film Caribbean Nights: Poetry changed all that. \nThe film features Trinidadian intellectual Darcus Howe chairing an illuminating discussion with St Lucian poet Derek Walcott (1992 Nobel Prize for Literature)\, pioneering British-Jamaican reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and emerging British-Guyanese poet Fred D’Aguiar. \nFollowed by a talk with poet and editor Rishi Dastidar\, 2023 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph\, Louisa Adjoa Parker\, and Bristol academic Madhu Krishnan. \nHelen Thomas will then read a new poem inspired by the film.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/caribbean-nights-lyra-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Watershed\, 1 Canons Road Harbourside\, Bristol\, BS1 5TX
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Film
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240401T210000
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SUMMARY:Chris French: The Science of Weird S**t!
DESCRIPTION:Why our minds conjure the paranormal \nWhat better way to mark All Fools Day (no\, this is not an April Fool) than an event that seeks to debunk the myths around the paranormal? \nThis event is organised by Bristol Humanists\, with Heron Books providing the bookstall. \nEver since records began\, in every known society\, a substantial proportion of people have reported unusual experiences\, often labelled ‘paranormal’. Opinion polls show that the majority of the public accept that paranormal phenomena do occur. This widespread belief can only mean one of 2 things. Either the paranormal is real or else belief in the paranormal can be explained psychologically. \nGhostly encounters\, alien abduction\, reincarnation\, talking to the dead\, UFO sightings\, inexplicable coincidences\, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not\, then how should we go about understanding them? Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this “weird s**t.”\nIn the Science of Weird S**t he will debunk ESP\, communicating with the dead\, and alien abduction claims\, among other phenomena. All the while\, however\, he says that our belief in such phenomena is neither ridiculous nor trivial; if anything\, such claims can tell us a great deal about the human mind if we pay them the attention they are due. \nChris French is Emeritus Professor and Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Patron of Humanists UK. He has published well over 150 articles and chapters covering a wide range of topics. His main current area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. He frequently appears on radio and television casting a sceptical eye over paranormal claims. His most recent book\, to be published in March 2024 by MIT Press\, is The Science of Weird S**t: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Bristol Humanists’ events are FREE to members; they ask others to make a contribution of £3/£1. You can join Bristol Humanists here https://www.bristolhumanists.com/membership and for more information on Bristol Humanists https://www.bristolhumanists.com/
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/chris-french-the-science-of-weird-st/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Alice Roberts: Crypt
DESCRIPTION:We will be the booksellers at the launch of Crypt at St George’s\, Bristol. You can buy tickets from their website: https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/alice-roberts-crypt/ Tickets are selling quickly! \nAfter a sell-out tour in 2022\, Professor Alice Roberts returns to launch her new book\, Crypt. This final instalment of her highly-acclaimed trilogy explores the experience of life\, death and disease in the Middle Ages and beyond. \nAlice looks at the archaeological evidence for terrible brutality directed at an ethnic minority in medieval England\, she explores the impact of incurable epidemics sweeping through Europe and looks at how modern science is unlocking secrets from the watery grave of the Mary Rose shipwreck. She also reveals how archaeogenetic research is uncovering cryptic clues and shedding new light on diseases such as leprosy\, syphilis and the plague. \nProfessor Alice Roberts’ charismatic and engaging style has captivated audiences from all backgrounds for over two decades. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to join her for a fascinating evening\, learn more about her latest book and even bag yourself a signed copy!
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/alice-roberts-crypt/
LOCATION:St George’s\, Bristol\, St George’s Bristol\, Great George Street\, Bristol\, BS1 5RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Dancing in the Shallows - Clare Reddaway
DESCRIPTION:Clare Reddaway launches her gorgeous and gentle novel\, Dancing in the Shallows at the Clifton Library. \n6.30 for a 7pm start. All details in the link below. We are so looking forward to hearing from Clare about the book and will have a bookstall at the event. \n‘She’s had this feeling before. This feeling of marking time. Of pressing her nose against a window and watching as everyone else lives their best lives.’Isla Wintergreen has not seen her grandfather since she was seven\, but when she unexpectedly inherits his cottage on the Isle of Skye\, she cannot resist the opportunity to escape her purposeless life. \nAs she slowly becomes a part of the island community\, she learns more about the family she never really knew – from her estranged father\, to her reclusive grandfather\, and her intelligent but oppressed great-grandmother. Meanwhile\, her mother Cathy reflects on her own past. Mother and daughter both hope to find new freedom – but can family patterns ever really be broken?Told through the lives of four generations of Isla’s family\, all linked by their connection to water\, ‘Dancing in the Shallows’ masterfully explores family relationships and generational inheritance.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/dancing-in-the-shallows-clare-reddaway/
LOCATION:Clifton Library\, 13 Princess Victoria St\, Bristol\, BS8 4BX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Bristol Humanists Author Event - Anil Seth
DESCRIPTION:Darwin Day Lecture \nBeing You: the new science of consciousness with Professor Anil Seth \n‘Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery’\, so said philosopher Daniel Dennett. \nSomehow\, within each of our brains\, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? And why do we experience life in the first person? Charles Darwin reasoned that there is a unity of all living things. That unity\, he reckoned\, applies not just to bodies but also to minds. Scientists continue to debate the question of exactly how the brain (a biological organ) gives rise to a mind (with its intangible mental processes). \nAnil Seth will open up some of these ideas in his exploration of being you. He will challenge your understanding of perception and reality\, and turn what you thought you knew about yourself\, on its head. World-renowned neuroscientist Seth puts forward a radical new theory of consciousness and self. \nFull details: https://www.meetup.com/bristol-humanists/events/297640024/\nTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/604068
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/bristol-humanists-author-event-anil-seth/
LOCATION:Bristol Folk House\, 40a Park St\, Bristol\, BS1 5JG
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Markovits - A reading and conversation
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books at this reading and conversation with the author Benjamin Markovits\, organised by the University of Bristol. \nMarkovits grew up in Texas\, London and Berlin. He is the prizewinning author of eleven novels including Either Side of Winter\, You Don’t Have to Live Like This and Christmas in Austin. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway. \nWednesday 6th December\, 5pm\nG.H01\, Arts Complex\, 3-5 Woodland Rd\nFree entry\, all welcome\, no booking required.\nA drinks reception will follow the event.\nContact: michael.kalisch@bristol.ac.uk
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/benjamin-markovits-a-reading-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Arts Complex\, University of Bristol\, Arts Complex Woodland Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Book Stall at Am I Normal? with Bristol Humanists
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books are pleased to be running a book stall at the annual Emma Martin Lecture organised by Bristol Humanists at the Unitarian Meeting Hall in Brunswick Square. \nDr Sarah Chaney of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University will give a talk entitled Am I Normal? Why normal people don’t exist. \nWe will be selling copies of Sarah Chaney’s book\, Am I Normal? as well as a range of other related titles. \nYou can purchase tickets for the talk via We Got Tickets here. For further information about the talk\, see the event page on the Bristol Humanists website.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/book-stall-at-am-i-normal-with-bristol-humanists/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Soundings by Doreen Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the shop to hear from Doreen Cunningham\, author of the amazing memoir Soundings. Doreen will give a short talk with readings from her feminist memoir about whales\, climate change and radical single-mothering. Afterwards\, Doreen will be available for questions\, conversation and to sign your copy of her book. \nAttendance is free; please RSVP via social media or read@heronbooks.co.uk \n— \nDoreen Cunningham is an Irish-British writer born in Wales. After studying engineering she worked briefly in climate related research at NERC and in storm modelling at Newcastle University\, before turning to journalism. She worked for the BBC World Service for twenty years as an international news presenter\, editor\, producer and reporter. She won the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award 2020 and was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writers Award 2021 for Soundings\, her first book. \nDoreen first visited Utqiagvik\, the northernmost town in Alaska\, as a young journalist reporting on climate change among indigenous whaling communities. There\, she joined the spring whale hunt under the neverending Arctic light\, watching for bowhead whales and polar bears\, drawn deeply into an Iñupiaq family and their culture amid the disappearing ice. \nYears later\, plunged into sudden poverty and isolation after becoming a single parent\, Doreen embarks on an extraordinary journey: following the grey whale migration all the way north to the Iñupiaq family that took her in\, where grey and bowhead whales meet at the melting apex of our planet.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/soundings-by-doreen-cunningham/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Heron Books":MAILTO:read@heronbooks.co.uk
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SUMMARY:Maid of the Haystack by Martin J. Powell
DESCRIPTION:In 1776 a young beautiful woman with graceful manners appeared in Flax Bourton\, near Bristol and set up home in a haystack. Louisa stayed there for four years. Fashionable folk taking the waters at the Hotwells Spa would take carriage rides out to visit her and she attracted the attention of the rich and famous from London. \nWho was she? Why did she behave so oddly? Her story went viral sparking an 18th-Century conspiracy theory touching on the most powerful people in Europe. \nAuthor Martin J. Powell a Bristol journalist and writer\, first heard about the Maid of the Haystack in the 1980s and since then has researched her history and has written a novel bringing her story alive. The cast of characters include Hannah More\, John Wesley\, David Garrick\, Joshua Reynolds and the crowned heads of Europe. The book’s themes include 18th Century attitudes to mental health the treatment of women and acts of charity by the rich and famous. The seamless merging of fact and fiction takes the reader on a journey back in time to experience what it was like to live in Bristol in those days. \nMaid of the Haystack will be launched at Heron Books at 5pm on Saturday May 20 when author Martin J. Powell will give an insight into how this local historical novel came about. \nEntry is free. RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of audience numbers.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/maid-of-the-haystack-by-martin-j-powell/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Heron Books":MAILTO:read@heronbooks.co.uk
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SUMMARY:Bristol Poetry Institute: Annual Reading with Denise Riley
DESCRIPTION:We are honoured to be selling books at the forthcoming Bristol Poetry Institute’s Annual Reading in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building. \nOne of our finest contemporary poets\, Denise Riley\, will be giving a reading\, taking questions and signing copies of her books\, available for purchase from a Heron Books stall. \nTickets are free but please use the Eventbrite page to book a place and for further information. This event is organised by the Bristol Poetry Institute\, based at the University of Bristol.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/bristol-poetry-institute-annual-reading-with-denise-riley/
LOCATION:Wills Memorial Building\, Queens Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1RJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bristol Poetry Institute":MAILTO:poetry-institute@bristol.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Jenny Chandler (A Good Appetite)
DESCRIPTION:Chef\, food writer and former UN European Ambassador for the International Year of Pulses (naturally)\, Jenny Chandler will be in the Arcade on Sunday 16th April with some tasty treats to sample and copies of her latest book A Good Appetite: Eating for Planet\, Body and Soul. \nAs well as having written several books on food and cooking\, Jenny regularly runs cookery classes in primary schools around Bristol and is passionate about engaging children with the food they eat from a young age. \nJenny will be on hand to chat\, answer questions and sign books: drop in and say hello any time between 11 and 12:30.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/meet-the-author-jenny-chandler-a-good-appetite/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Heron Books":MAILTO:read@heronbooks.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230218T170000
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SUMMARY:Treated Like Animals: Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us as author\, veterinarian and naturalist Alick Simmons introduces his new book Treated Like Animals and explains why the issue of animal welfare should concern us all. \nAlick will give a short talk on the modern challenges\, both legal and ethical\, that present themselves in looking after animals in our homes\, on our farms and in the wild\, as well as on the solutions that might be found. Afterwards\, Alick will be available for questions\, conversation and to sign your copy of his book. \n— \nAlick Simmons is a veterinarian and a naturalist. After a 35-year public service career controlling epidemic diseases of livestock\, culminating in eight years as the UK’s Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer\, in 2015 he began conservation volunteering. He is chair of the Zoological Society of London’s Ethics Committee for Animal Research and sits as an independent member of ethics committees for both the RSPB and National Trust. He is former chair of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare and the Humane Slaughter Association.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/treated-like-animals-launch/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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