Past Events

What-ho, Norwich! We're rather chuffed to announce that Mini Storytellers is returning to the Book Hive on the morning of Friday the 30th of November! Mini Storytellers is a brilliant organisation that promotes creativity, confidence and imagination through books. At every jam-packed class, children go on an adventure through the theme of the week. Each child plays a vital role in the story - making props and costumes, singing songs, and acting out characters along the way... Ideal for 2-4…

The theme of World book Day is 'share a story' - the whole idea is to get parents to read a book to their children for 10 minutes a day. But research has found that parents simply have no time, or are too tired, to read with their children. So the Book Hive and Brick Pizza have teamed up to offer discounts on both books and food in an effort to ‘sort dinner’ - giving families time to share a story together.

Join Mark for a relaxed evening in the Crypt at the Louis Marchesi pub as he chats to Professor Matt Worley about his new anthology of essays and conversations 'A Hidden Landscape Once A Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, in the words of Those Who Were There'...

Mark Boyle is an Irish activist and writer best known for founding the online Freeconomy Community, and for living without money since November 2008 (hence being known as the 'Moneyless Man').His new book is an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life without modern technology. It explores the hard won joys of building a home with your bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the spring, foraging and fishing.

Set in a 1960s English new town, Cowan's latest novel charts one boy's childhood from first memory to first love. A year older in each chapter, Peter's story is told to him by his future self as he attempts to recreate the optimism and futurism of the 1960s, and to reveal how that utopianism fares as it emerges into the Seventies. Your Fault an untold story of British working class experience, written with extraordinary precision and tenderness.

Set entirely on a London bus travelling from Hoxton to Highbury and taking place over just 36 minutes, the events of The 392 unfold through a cast of charismatic characters coming from very different worlds. But these Londoners share two things: a bus journey and a threat. A threat which is ready to blow apart everything they know... Join us for the launch, when Ashley will be in conversation with Nowich-based poet Cai Draper.

Join us for an evening of bee celebration - and find out about a new initiative that YOU can get involved in to help look after our buzzing friends! Expect an evening all about bees, community, and connecting with nature - Helen will be discussing her incredible bee-keeping memoir, while Dan will be telling us all about his Bee Saviour Behaviour initiative!

We're very chuffed to be hosting a FREE party to celebrate the launch of "Like the Sea I Think" - an anthology of new marine fiction from Norfolk. A warm welcome awaits you at the shop, where there will be readings by local authors featured in the anthology, plus some delicious refreshments.