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SUMMARY:The Woolf of Regent Street
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Sessions in The Heronry \nJoin us on the first Sunday of the month in September\, October and November to discuss Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway\, To the Lighthouse and a A Room of One’s Own. \nWe will meet in the shop\, 4.30-5.45 to discuss two of Woolf’s novels and her argument about the barriers to women writing. Whether you have read them before or never read anything by Virginia Woolf\, we are curious to hear your thoughts and share our experiences of reading her work. \n6 September: Mrs Dalloway\n4 October: To the Lighthouse\n1 November: A Room of One’s Own \nIn order to sign up we ask that you buy the three books from us or a £30 Heron Books voucher. Spaces are limited and we ask that you only sign up if you can make all three discussions.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/the-woolf-of-regent-street/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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SUMMARY:Irmina: Accidental Graphic Novel Book Club meets again
DESCRIPTION:Our occasional graphic novel book club meets to discuss Irmina by Barbara Yelin. \nIn the mid-1930s\, Irmina\, an ambitious young German\, moves to London. \nAt a cocktail party\, she meets Howard Green\, one of the first Black students at Oxford\, who\, like Irmina\, is working towards an independent existence. However\, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina\, constrained by the political situation in Hitler’s Germany\, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken\, it becomes clear to Irminathat prosperity will only be possible through the betrayal of her ideals. \nIn the award-winning Irmina\, Barbara Yelin presents a troubling drama about the tension between integrity and social advancement. Based on a true story\, this moving and perceptive graphic novel perfectly conjures the oppressive atmosphere of wartime Germany\, reflecting on the complicity that results from the choice\, conscious or otherwise\, to look away. \nIf you’d like to sign up please get in touch: read@heronbooks.mom. Space is limited. We ask that you buy the book from us or a different book if you already own this one.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/irmina-accidental-graphic-novel-book-club-meets-again/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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SUMMARY:Hungarian Tragedy: on Peter Fryer's book about the Hungarian Revolution with Ben Gliniecki
DESCRIPTION:Seventy years ago\, in October 1956\, Hungarians flooded into the streets. For eleven days they fought a brutal Stalinist dictatorship. The revolution was ultimately crushed with an iron fist and Soviet tanks. \nHungarian Tragedy is an incredible contemporary account of the revolution. First published in 1956\, this new edition aims to introduce those extraordinary events to a new generation. \nBen Gliniecki\, author of A Communist History of the British General Strike\, has written the introduction to this new edition and will be speaking about the history of the revolution and Fryer’s work. \nPlease join us in the shop from 5pm for a short talk\, question and answer session and chance to pick up your copy of Hungarian Tragedy.  \nThe event is free but space is limited. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.mom.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/hungarian-tragedy-on-peter-fryers-book-about-the-hungarian-revolution-with-ben-gliniecki/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Calculation Party
DESCRIPTION:It’s the eighteenth of November. You know what that means: it is still the eighteenth of November. It’s been the eighteenth of November for a really\, really long time. \nIf you too are obsessed with Tara Selter\, time and the unfolding of the best series since Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels/Ali Smith’s quintet/Eva Baltasar’s triptych/The Sopranos/The Cornetto Trilogy/the end of the Roman Empire\, please come to our party. \nYou need to have read all five books. There will be spoilers. There will be discussion. There will be a drink or two. \nTo sign up\, please order book five from us and tell us you want to come. On the Calculation of Volume V is published on 5th November. Don’t read the blurb if you haven’t yet read books one through four yet. This is your warning notice to plan your reading accordingly . See you in\, I do mean in\, 18th November. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/calculation-party/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Group,Silliness
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SUMMARY:The Poetry of Phoebe Giannisi
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to support this event organised by the Institute of Greece\, Rome and the Classical Tradition \nA Performance with Phoebe Giannisi and Poet-Translator Brian Sneeden \nA leading contemporary Greek poet\, Phoebe Giannisi brings together poetry\, performance\, ecology\, and antiquity in explorations of language\, place\, and the living world. Copies of her book\, Goatsong\, will be for sale on the night. \nTickets available here. \nAbout Goatsong:\nThe ancient Greek word for tragedy (τραγωδία) is a compound of goat (τράγος) and song (ᾠδή). In Phoebe Giannisi’s Goatsong\, the seam that connects human and animal\, myths and history\, is the body.\nIn Giannisi’s language\, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth\, reminding us of a scene from Plato’s Phaedrus\, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing\, and didn’t stop to eat or drink. When the goddess Thetis dips her newborn son\, Achilles\, into the River Styx to protect all but his famous heel where her hand grips\, we’re told ‘the place of the mother’s grip / is the mark of death.’ Adjacent to the mythical setting is the material\, where the rumination of goats\, their digestive cycle – chewing\, swallowing\, then recalling food back into the mouth to be reconsidered – begins after weaning\, and is lain alongside how we think: ‘from the moment of separation / from the mother / they ruminate.’ In these lyric enactments\, all is transformative and transformed; territories of land\, the body and history are blurred\, and nothing is still.\nFrom Homer to Donna Haraway\, Derrida to state archives\, klephtic ballads and rebetiko\, to Parmenides and Giannisi’s dog\, Ivan\, the many human and animal voices of Goatsong form an incantatory lyricism and layered engagement unique in literature. \nPhoebe Giannisi is the author of eight collections of poetry. A 2016 Humanities Fellow of Columbia University\, Giannisi is a professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly\, and co-editor of the literary journal frmk. She has translated Ancient Greek lyric poetry as well as the poetry of Barbara Koehler\, Gregor Laschen\, Jesper Svenbro and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She lives in Volos\, Greece. \nBrian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon\, 2018). His poetry and translations have received the Iowa Review Award in Poetry\, an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship\, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry\, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize\, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and other recognitions. He is a lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/the-poetry-of-phoebe-giannisi/
LOCATION:Wills Memorial Building\, Queens Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1RJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Brian Bilston: How To Lay An Egg with a Horse Inside
DESCRIPTION:We are very much looking forward to hosting a book stall and signing at St George’s for an evening with Brian Bilston. Full details and tickets on their website. \nWith over 500\,000 followers on social media and a host of sell-out shows across the country\, Brian Bilston is one of the UK’s most popular poets. \nHe has published several bestselling collections of poetry\, including You Took the Last Bus Home\, Alexa\, what is there to know about love? and Days Like These. His novel Diary of a Somebody was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award\, and he has also written collections of poetry for younger readers. In 2025 he released an album of his poetry set to music\, Sounds Made by Humans\, in collaboration with The Catenary Wires. \nThis autumn sees Brian return to the stage with his latest book\, How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside. Get ready for an evening of comedy and laughter\, as he takes us through the hows\, whys and whats of reading\, writing and enjoying poetry every day.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/brian-bilston-how-to-lay-an-egg-with-a-horse-inside/
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:Philosophy Salon: Free Speech under Fire
DESCRIPTION:Does free speech have limits? Can and should social media platforms control what their users say? \nIn his new book Setting Fire to Reason\, philosopher Jeffrey Howard argues that free speech is among our most important moral rights\, but—like all rights—it has limits\, determined by moral duties we owe to each other. Howard will be unpicking the law\, morality and limits of free speech with and host Julian Baggini and political theorist Judith Squires. In the second half\, the conversation will be led by your questions. Come not only to hear about free speech\, but to participate in it. \nJeffrey W. Howard is professor of political philosophy and public policy at University College London\, where he is director of the Digital Speech Lab. He is the author of Setting Fire to Reason: The Ethics of Free Speech and co-editor of the journal Political Philosophy. \nJudith Squires was Professor of Political Theory and Dean of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol before becoming its Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost. The New Politics of Gender Equality is among her many publications and commissioned reports. \nTickets from the St George’s Bristol website: https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/philosophy-salon-free-speech-under-fire/
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/philosophy-salon-free-speech-under-fire/
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:Bristol Humanists: Mark Williamson on making life happier
DESCRIPTION:We look forward to supporting this event organised by Bristol Humanists. \nFull details to follow. \nDr Mark Williamson is co-founder and Director of Action for Happiness. \nHis book offers 23 practical ways to make life happier. It’s based on evidence from the latest scientific research combined with unique insights from the author plus proven ideas that he has helped thousands of people to adopt successfully in their everyday lives. It goes much deeper than typical self-help advice\, covering a wide range of themes which contribute to lifelong wellbeing. \nThe book combines actions to improve your own happiness with actions that benefit others too. Make Life Happier is also an invitation to join a global movement of people who are choosing to live differently. People who recognise that happiness is not just a personal quest\, but a gift that can enrich our communities and our world. It’s an invitation to help shift our values. From what we can get to what we can give. From seeking validation to finding connection. From just surviving to actively thriving. Remember\, this is about how to make life happier\, rather than happy\, recognising this is a journey and there’s no perfect end-point. The most important thing to keep in mind right now is that your actions matter. \nYou may not be able to change your circumstances\, but you do have the potential to feel better\, find meaning and make a difference. Whatever your situation is\, you can do something.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/bristol-humanists-mark-williamson-on-making-life-happier/
LOCATION:Bristol Grain Store\, Bristol YHA\, 14 Narrow Quay\, Bristol\, BS1 4QA
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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