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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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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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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
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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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