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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: John Greening
DESCRIPTION:Poetry in Herons returns! \nFor our March monthly poetry reading\, we are delighted to welcome John Greening. \nFree entry. Come for the poetry. Stay for the poetry. \nArrive at 5pm. We’ll offer you something fizzy. Usually a drink but perhaps one day it will be a sherbet fountain. \n5.10-5.40ish\, we’ll enjoy some poetry. \n5.40-6pm\, finish the fizzy things\, chat with the poet and perhaps buy their books. \nSome seating. Some standing. Get in touch with us about any requirements you may have. \nIt is free and unticketed but it would help if you let us know that you are coming. RSVP to read@heronbooks.mom. \nJohn Greening is a poet\, critic\, editor and translator\, a Bridport\, Arvon and Cholmondeley winner and author of over twenty collections\, The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022 (Baylor UP ed. Gardner) came out in 2023. He has edited Matthew Arnold\, Geoffrey Grigson\, Edmund Blunden\, Iain Crichton Smith and a new U.A.Fanthorpe\, plus several critical studies and anthologies\, most recently (with Kevin Gardner) Contraflow: Lines of Englishness\, a Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year. His Goethe translations appeared in 2022 from Arc and there is a forthcoming Rilke. \nU.A.Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was one of the UK’s most popular poets\, but it’s not well known that her writing career began in Bristol. She had given up her teaching post and become what she liked to call  ‘a middle-aged drop-out’. While working as a hospital receptionist in the 1970s she began writing (literally in her lunch hours) the work that would soon make her famous in ways very rare for any poet. Her many awards included the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. \nThere has not been a new selection of her poems available for many years and John Greening will be introducing his annotated edition of her work tonight and also reading some of his own poetry. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-in-herons-john-greening/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Simon Scarrow: A Death in Berlin
DESCRIPTION:A free lunchtime talk with Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Simon Scarrow in the Reading Room at Bristol Central Library. Simon will be in conversation discussing his new book A Death in Berlin\, the latest in his CI Schenke series. \nAbout the Book \nSPRING 1940. GERMANY IS AT WAR. HITLER PREPARES TO UNLEASH THE BLITZKRIEG\, AND FEAR RULES THE STREETS OF BERLIN. Where the darkness of evil thrives\, no one is safe—not even the criminals. \nBERLIN. MAY 1940. AS HITLER PREPARES TO INVADE WESTERN EUROPE\, THERE IS BLOODSHED CLOSER TO HOME \nCI Horst Schenke is an exceptional investigator with the Kripo unit. Powerless against the consequences of the wider war\, he fights to keep criminals off his patch of Berlin. But with influential men questioning his loyalty to the Nazi regime\, he is walking a tightrope. If his secret relationship with a Jewish woman is exposed\, that would spell the end. \nBerlin’s gangsters run their crime rings with impunity. Decadent senior Nazis are happy to protect them. Schenke is different. He refuses to turn a blind eye when innocent victims are caught in the crossfire between warring gangs. But dangerous enemies know everything about him. They will do whatever it takes to bend him to their will . . . \nFrom the seedy wartime nightlife scene to aristocratic homes frequented by the Führer himself\, against a backdrop of a war spiralling into a greater\, and closer\, conflagration\, A Death in Berlin conveys both the horror and banality of evil. And the terrible danger for those who dare stand against it. \nAbout the Author \nSimon Scarrow is a Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author with several million copies of his books sold worldwide. After a childhood spent travelling the world\, he pursued his great love of history as a teacher\, before becoming a full-time writer. His books – which have sold 6 million copies – include two earlier Berlin thrillers featuring CI Schenke\, BLACKOUT and DEAD OF NIGHT which was a No.2 ebook bestseller. \nSimon Scarrow is also the author of a quartet of novels about the lives of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte\, YOUNG BLOODS\, THE GENERALS\, FIRE AND SWORD and THE FIELDS OF DEATH; a novel about the 1565 Siege of Malta\, SWORD & SCIMITAR; HEARTS OF STONE\, set in Greece during the Second World War; and PLAYING WITH DEATH\, a contemporary thriller written with Lee Francis. He also wrote the novels ARENA and INVADER with T. J. Andrews. His first Berlin thriller\, BLACKOUT\, set in WW2 Berlin and first published in 2021 was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick with DEAD OF NIGHT following to critical acclaim earlier in 2023.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/simon-scarrow-a-death-in-berlin/
LOCATION:Bristol Central Library\, Deanery Road\, Bristol\, BS1 5TL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:World Book Day
DESCRIPTION:Pop in to pick up your World Book Day choice! \nWorld Book Day champions the fun of reading\, because it seriously improves lives. Reading for fun is the single biggest indicator that a child will grow up to enjoy a happier and more successful life – more than their family circumstances\, their parents’ educational backgrounds or their income. \nBut here’s the challenge\, it’s at an all-time low\, with only 1 in 3 children now saying they enjoy reading. World Book Day is a charity which believes children are more likely to read if they enjoy it\, so we’re on a mission to encourage them to see reading as an entertaining\, social and fun thing to do. We want more children to grow up with a life-long\, life-changing habit of reading for fun\, and all the benefits this brings. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/world-book-day/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Are the Introverts Winning? with Marie le Conte
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to support this event organised by the Bristol Humanists. \nFull details and tickets: https://www.meetup.com/bristol-humanists/events/305649303/ \nIn our post-pandemic online world are we becoming more and more socially isolated? If so\, what does that mean for us humans\, the most social of all animals? We have evolved and are genetically pre-disposed to live in large social groups. Social interaction and cooperation is key to our ‘success’ and flourishing as a species. In this talk\, based on a recent article in New Humanist\, Marie le Conte will make the case that the pandemic\, and near universal access to the internet\, has just speeded up a fundamental long-term shift in our social patterns\, leading to reduced social interaction. This in turn reduces diversity\, positive ‘friction’ and the myriad benefits of social contact. Did you know for example that social isolation leads to greater loneliness\, and in turn is actually a bigger killer than smoking cigarettes. She will argue that the outside is where the unknowable can take place\, that chance interactions are a precious thing\, and that a life without serendipity is not really worth living. How can we recreate this vital social interaction that is so vital to our wellbeing and survival? \nMarie Le Conte is a French-Moroccan freelance journalist based in London. She previously worked as media and politics correspondent for Buzzfeed and as political diarist for the New Statesman\, as well as co-host of the Polling Politics podcast and presented a documentary for Radio 4 called Club 18-30. She also co-founded and organised two editions of the Words by Women awards. She writes features\, profiles\, essays\, book reviews\, newsletters and columns for a number of publications\, often on politics but also about everything else! She has written 3 books\, the most recent of which is ‘Escape – how a generation shaped\, destroyed and survived the internet’
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/are-the-introverts-winning-with-marie-le-conte/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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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.mom/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:We Have Flown Away to 7a
DESCRIPTION:At 9.30 on 8th Feburary\, Heron Books opens a new door at 7a Regent Street. Please do come and see us on 8th February to find out if we’ve managed to shelve all the books in their new location. \nIn the morning we’ll have some sweet treats to offer from our favourite East Village Cafe. \nIn the (early) evening\, we’ll be having a little party:\n(Not actually) champagne served from 4.45. A couple of silly words from me from 5pm. A couple of wise poems from Bob Walton. And then some more drinks until 6pm. \nHope to see lots of you there.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/we-have-flown-away-to-7a/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:A Moving Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Ahead of our move to 7a Regent Street\, we are offering 10% off for our last weekend in the Arcade. That’s the whole event. Very simple. 1st-2nd February. 10% off everything you buy in the shop. \nWhilst your here\, you could also reminisce with us about the stunning surroundings in which Heron Books first began. Come and gaze with us at the glass roof\, thinking of the majesty of the place (probably while beset by deafening hail\, given the current storms). Come and speculate with us about whether that weird hum is the ghost of the Arcade’s architect. Come and congratulate us on the sheer amount of weetabix we’re consuming in order to carry out the move. Major arm muscles developing here. And then please continue to come and enjoy our little independent when we open at 7a Regent Street just round the corner.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/a-moving-weekend/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:2025 Poetry in Herons
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly poetry series has a little break for a couple of months over winter. We return from March. Exciting announcements about the 2025 programme coming soon and lots of events and book groups to celebrate before then. \nHappy reading and we hope to see you at an event and in the shop soon. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/2025-poetry-in-herons/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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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.mom/event/poetry-and-science/
LOCATION:Bristol Folk House\, 40a Park St\, Bristol\, BS1 5JG
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons Party with Carrie Etter
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly poetry event combines with a festive party hosted by The Lansdown on Thursday 21st November.\nWe are delighted to welcome back Carrie Etter.\nArrive from 18.30. Head upstairs. Poetry will commence shortly after. Partying will continue until late. \nThere may be a few tickets on the door but please book in advance to avoid disappointment. \nAlso on the bill will be ten local poets\, invited to read one poem. \nCarrie Etter has published five collections of poetry\, most recently Grief’s Alphabet\, described by The Guardian as ‘An impassioned reckoning with the aftermath of Etter’s adoptive parents’ deaths’. Her previous collections are The Tethers\, winner of the London New Poetry Prize; Divining for Starters; Imagined Sons\, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and The Weather in Normal\, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic\, The New Statesman\, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem\, Poetry Review\, and The TLS. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop. Tickets only are £4 or £10.99 with the purchase of  Grief’s Alphabet\, Imagined Sons or The Weather in Normal. We will provide a glass of something sparkling on arrival. The bar downstairs will be open throughout the night. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-in-herons-party-with-carrie-etter/
LOCATION:The Lansdown\, 8 Clifton Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES: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.mom/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.mom/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.mom/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.mom/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.mom) 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.mom/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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241012T191500
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons – Glyn Maxwell
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Poetry In Herons with Glyn Maxwell\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry reading. 6pm\, Saturday 12th October. \nGlyn Maxwell’s most recent poetry books are The Big Calls\, a broadside against recent UK government\, and How The Hell Are You\, shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize in 2020. Seven of his poetry collections have been shortlisted for the T S Eliot\, Forward and Costa Prizes\, and ‘The Nerve’ won the Geoffrey Faber Prize. His latest book is Silly Games To Save The World\, a sequel to his popular guidebook On Poetry. \nSilly Games is available to read for free on Glyn’s Substack site. He is Head of Studies on the MA at the Poetry School\, and Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets are £4 or free with the purchase of either The Big Calls or How the Hell Are You. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event. \nThe evening will begin with a reading from Kaycee Hill\, followed by Glyn’s reading. \nKaycee is a working-class\, mixed-heritage poet studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. She won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize and received mentorship from Malika Booker. Kaycee’s poetry has been published in Poetry Review\, Five Dials\, and commended by the Young Poets Network. Her words are found on Young Poets’ Stories\, the British Museum’s YouTube channel\, and in various anthologies. Bloodaxe recently published her debut collection\, Hot Sauce.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-in-herons-glyn-maxwell/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241007T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241007T210000
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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.mom/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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T194500
DTSTAMP:20240630T131922Z
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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.mom/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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ORGANIZER;CN="Heron Books":MAILTO:read@heronbooks.mom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240914T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240914T191500
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Poetry in Herons – Elizabeth Parker
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event has been cancelled due to illness. We apologise for any inconvenience. If you had already bought a ticket\, we have sent you an email about this. Do get in touch if you have any questions.\nJoin us for Poetry In Herons with Elizabeth Parker\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry reading. 6pm\, Saturday 14th September. \nIn September we are celebrating the publication of Cormorant\, the second collection from Elizabeth Parker. \nElizabeth Parker was born in London and grew up in Pygmy Pinetum Garden Nurseries\, a garden centre in The Forest of Dean. She lives in Bristol with her partner and two sons. Elizabeth was a secondary school English teacher for eight years and is writing two novels based on her experiences teaching Shakespeare to teenagers. \nElizabeth’s poetry has been published in various journals and has won and been shortlisted for a range of prizes. Following her 2016 pamphlet\, Antinopolis (published by Eyewear)\, Elizabeth’s first full collection\, In Her Shambles\, was published by Seren Books in April 2018 and her second collection\, Cormorant\, was published by Seren this February. Elizabeth is a founding member of Bristol poetry quartet The Spoke\, who perform their work at festivals and events. She is also co-host of monthly Bristol poetry event Under The Red Guitar. \nElizabeth is currently experimenting with poetic forms as she works on a long poem about her wonderful father\, who has late-stage dementia\, and a collection about the life and sudden loss of her sister\, the playwright and glorious human being Helen K Parker. Her cormorants continue\, as she has just begun to draft a poem titled ‘Helen As Cormorant’. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets are £4 or free with the purchase of Cormorant. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event. \nThe evening will begin with a reading from Julie-Ann Rowell\, followed by Elizabeth’s reading. \nJulie-Ann Rowell is a multi-award-winning poet. She won first prize in the Grey Hen Press Poetry Competition\, in the Frogmore Poetry Prize and the New Writer Poetry Competition Short Collection prize. Her pamphlet collection Convergence was selected as a recommended read by the Poetry Book Society. She was a runner-up twice in the Bridport Prize. Her latest collection\, Inside Out\, was short-listed for the Welsh International Poetry Collection competition 2023.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-in-herons-elizabeth-parker/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240902T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240902T213000
DTSTAMP:20240810T092526Z
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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.mom/event/bristol-humanists-rebecca-nesbitt/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240817T191500
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons – Martyn Crucefix
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Poetry In Herons with Martyn Crucefix\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry series. 6pm\, Saturday 17th August. \nWe will be celebrating the publication of Martyn’s translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry\, Change Your Life.  \nMore about Martyn Crucefix\nBetween a Drowning Man is published by Salt (2023). His Duino Elegies (Enitharmon\, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation. Recent publications: Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions\, 2019); These Numbered Days\, poems by Peter Huchel (Shearsman\, 2019) won the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize\, 2020. Translations of essays by Lutz Seiler\, In Case of Loss\, have been published by And Other Stories in 2023. His major Rilke Selected\, Change Your Life\, is published by Pushkin Press (2024). Until recently\, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library. Blogging at http://www.martyncrucefix.com \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets are £4 or free with the purchase of Change Your Life. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-in-herons-martyn-crucefix/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240718T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240718T213000
DTSTAMP:20240630T130302Z
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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 \nhttps://www.rwa.org.uk/collections/events/products/to-read-a-night-of-black-queer-literature
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240713T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240713T191500
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons – Jonathan Edwards
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Poetry In Herons with Jonathan Edwards\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry reading. 6pm\, Saturday 13th July. \nJonathan Edwards’s first collection\, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren\, 2014)\, received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second collection\, Gen (Seren\, 2018)\, also received the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award\, and in 2019 his poem about Newport Bridge was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. He received the Troubadour Poetry Prize in 2022. He has been a judge for the National Poetry Competition and the Wales Book of the Year\, a Literature Wales mentor of emerging writers and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. He lives in Crosskeys\, South Wales. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets are £4 or free with the purchase of either My Family and Other Superheroes or Gen. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event. \nThe evening will begin with a reading from Adam Elms\, followed by Jonathan’s reading. \nBorn and bred in Devon\, Adam is a visually impaired creative who has lived in Bristol for almost twenty years. He recently returned to the spoken word scene after a decade away and performs regularly at poetry events\, festivals\, and open mics in and around the city. His work has been published in anthologies\, chapbooks\, and online journals by Walk – Listen – Create\, Frosted Fire\, the R.C. Sherriff Trust\, Lord Whisky Foundation\, and Nuthatch Press. Adam won the 2023 Waltham Forest Poetry Award with his poem\, ‘The Last VHS Player In England.’
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-in-herons-jonathan-edwards/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240704T194500
DTSTAMP:20240517T070321Z
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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.mom/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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240629T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240629T134500
DTSTAMP:20240611T100012Z
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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.mom/event/amy-jeffs/
LOCATION:St James’ Priory\, 1 Whitson Street\, Bristol\, BS1 3NZ
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240622
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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.mom/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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T194500
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SUMMARY:Poetry book group – Independent Bookshop Week
DESCRIPTION:For Independent Bookshop Week\, we have partnered with publisher And Other Stories. \nPoetry book club! Come along to discuss poetry collection\, Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler\, translated by Stefan Tobler. This is a particularly special occasion as publisher and translator Stefan will be joining us for the discussion.   \nOn its original publication in 2000\, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler’s childhood home\, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian uranium extraction\, these propulsive poems are highly personal\, porous\, twisting\, cadenced\, cryptic and earthy\, traversing the rural sidelines of European history with undeniable evocative force. The frailty of bodies\, a nearness to materials and manual work\, the unknowability of our parents’ suffering\, and ultimately the loss of childhood innocence\, all loom large in poems where sound comes first. \nAs Seiler says in an essay\, ‘You recognise the song by its sound. The sound forms in the instrument we ourselves have become over time. Before every poem comes the story that we have lived. The poem catches the sound of it. Rather than narrating the story\, it narrates its sound.’ \nWe’ll meet at 6.30 in the upstairs private room of The Albion pub. (Note the venue change for this one – we are meeting at The Albion.) \nTo sign up\, pop in and buy a copy of Pitch & Glint or let us know if you need this delivered to you. If you already have a copy\, we just ask that you buy a different book published by And Other Stories… how about some poetry featuring an angel rescuing an accountant from hell? \nFrom July\, we plan to keep running a poetry group. Do let us know if you are interested. 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-book-group-independent-bookshop-week/
LOCATION:The Albion\, The Albion\, Boyces Avenue\, Bristol\, BS8 4AA
CATEGORIES:Book Group,Independent Bookshop Week,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Short fiction book group – Independent Bookshop Week
DESCRIPTION:For Independent Bookshop Week\, we have partnered with publisher And Other Stories. \nJoin us for a discussion of one our favourite short story collections\, Black Vodka by Deborah Levy.  \n‘Elisa said Yes and I said Yes. We said Yes in all the European languages. Yes. We said yes we said yes\, yes to vague but powerful things\, we said yes to hope which has to be vague\, we said yes to love which is always blind\, we smiled and said yes without blinking.’ (‘A Better Way to Live’) \nHow does love change us? And how do we change ourselves for love – or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate\, impossible questions. In Vienna\, an icy woman seduces a broken man; in London\, a bird mimics an old-fashioned telephone; in adland\, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour and curiosity\, stories about what it means to live and love\, together and alone. \nWe’ll meet at 6.30 in the upstairs private room of The Lansdown pub. \nTo sign up\, pop in and buy a copy of Black Vodka or let us know if you need this delivered to you. If you already have a copy\, we just ask that you buy a different book published by And Other Stories… have you read Boulder yet? You must. \nFrom July\, we plan to keep running a short fiction book group – discussing both short stories and novellas. Do let us know if you are interested. 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/short-fiction-book-group-independent-bookshop-week/
LOCATION:The Lansdown\, 8 Clifton Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Group,Independent Bookshop Week,Short fiction
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons - Ralf Webb
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Poetry In Herons with Ralf Webb\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry reading. 6pm\, Saturday 15th June. \nRalf Webb is the author of the poetry collection Rotten Days in Late Summer\, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. His poems\, essays\, and short fiction have appeared in Fantastic Man\, Granta\, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He tutors in creative writing at Goldsmiths. Strange Relations: Masculinity\, Sexuality and Art is his first nonfiction book\, and publishes this July. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets are £4 or free with the purchase of Rotten Days in Late Summer or free with a preorder of Strange Relations: Masculinity\, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nOrders of Rotten Days in Late Summer will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event. Orders of Strange Relations will be available on publication\, on 25 July\, and can be collected from the shop or delivered to you. \nThe evening will begin with a reading from Florence Grieve\, followed by Ralf’s reading. \nFlorence Grieve is a Bristol based poet and writer. She has been featured in Mslexia\, Acumen\, on BBC Upload and was a finalist in the 2024 Lyra Festival Poetry Slam.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/poetry-in-herons-june/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:And Other Herons – Independent Bookshop Week
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be partnering with publisher And Other Stories for Independent Bookshop Week\, 15-22 June. \nFull details of everything we are planning to celebrate this superb literary publisher here. \nThere will be short stories\, there will be poetry\, there will be a competition to win some BOOKS\, there will be herons\, there will be temporary tattoos\, there will be more books. And Other Delights. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/and-other-herons-independent-bookshop-week/
CATEGORIES:Independent Bookshop Week
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