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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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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
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Bristol Humanists":MAILTO:bristolhumanists@gmail.com
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230416T123000
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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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