Give the gift of experience to the booklover in your life!
Our Winter-Spring 2025 Book Drunkard Festival gift pack includes four sensational events designed to brighten your winter and last well in to the spring thaw. Package price is $200 and includes four insightful interviews, five authors, four signed books, brunches, and a heck of a good time!SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2025 AT 3:00 PM
Join us at Foxbridge for a tea and scones with Lisa Genova as she discusses her latest novel, More or Less Maddy.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2025 AT 11:00 AM
Join us at Foxbridge for Books & Brunch with Susanna Kearsley and Kath Jonathan talking about their new books: The King’s Messanger and The Resistance Painter.
SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025 AT 11:00 AM
Join us at Wooden Sticks for Books & Brunch with Nita Prose as she discusses the latest novel in her Molly the Maid series: The Maid’s Secret.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2025 AT 7:00 PM
Join us at Wooden Sticks for dessert and coffee with Bianca Marais as she discusses her new mystery novel, A Most Puzzling Murder.
Celebrating 30 Years in 2019 – Blue Heron Books
In bookselling, 30 years is something worth celebrating. Small business is tough and bookselling even tougher. But Blue Heron Books succeeded! And the future is looking very bright indeed.
To mark this auspicious occasion, Blue Heron Books inaugurated The Book Drunkard Literary Festival in 2019. A longtime dream of owner Shelley Macbeth, the festival embraces all things dear to booklovers – great books and authors, great theatre, great food and drink and great music. You can count on being impressed by the depth and breadth of the festival. There truly is something for everyone!
In addition, 30 Random Acts of Book Kindness was Blue Heron’s way of acknowledging this milestone by giving back to the community that supported the store through thirty years of ups and downs. Blue Heron committed to undertake 30 acts of book kindness – big and small –to initiate or enhance the reading life of many. One of these projects, spearheaded and still implemented by the amazing Lucy Black, was establishing a read-aloud program at local nursing homes.
As well, a Facebook campaign to nurture indie bookseller love across the country was ushered in to encourage Canadian readers to continue supporting the indie bookstore in their neighbourhood.
And finally, what’s a milestone without a party? Blue Heron Books opened its doors to former staff and all customers during the fall of 2019, where an anniversary scrapbook was on display with LOTS of memorabilia. Stories were shared – a common occurrence at Blue Heron Books – and guests came armed with theirs!
View 2019 Festival Gallery