Heather Parry

We're thrilled to be welcoming back to the bookshop a bookseller favourite and beloved local writer, Heather Parry. From the mind that brought the enthrallingly horrifying reads, Orpheus Builds a Girl and This Is My Body, Given For You, comes a pocket-friendly and thought provoking work of non-fiction with local publisher 404 Ink.

Join us for an evening in the bookshop for a wee glass of wine and what promises to be a riveting discussion!

Electric Dreams

Fans of 404 Ink's Inkling series will know that the short volumes pack a disproportionately sizeable intellectual punch.

Previously contained to the realms of science fiction, sex robots are increasingly looking like a potential scientific possibility... or are they?

Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic? Electric Dreams picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at what’s being pushed aside for us to obsess about something that will never happen.

About Heather Parry

Originally from South Yorkshire, Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based writer and editor who co-founded Extra Teeth magazine, of which she is the Editorial Director. She's the winner of the 2016 Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer, Cove Park's 2017 Emerging Writer residency and the Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2021. After her debut gothic novel Orpheus Builds a Girl and spine-tingling short story collection This Is My Body, Given For You, Electric Dreams is her first work of non-fiction.