Autumn event with author Peter Heller
In partnership with the Un aller-retour dans le noir festival in Pau and Actes Sud publishers, Quais du Polar is honoured to welcome the American author Peter Heller to Lyon for a special event on Wednesday 30 September.
For the first time, Quais du Polar’s traditional autumn event will continue at the cinema! Following an initial session at a bookshop to discuss his latest book, Burn (published in September 2026), the evening will continue with a screening of The Dog Stars, inspired by his novel.
EVENING PROGRAMME
- 7.00 pm – Meet-and-greet and book signing at Passages bookshop (11 rue de Brest, Lyon 2nd arrondissement).
> Free booking required - 8.45 pm – Screening of the film *The Dog Stars* at the Lumière Terreaux cinema (40 rue du Président Édouard Herriot, Lyon 1st arrondissement).
Peter Heller will be there to introduce the film!
> Reservations can be made on the cinema’s website, at their usual rates.
A few words about Peter Heller
A poet, a seasoned reporter with a love of the great outdoors, a keen kayaker, angler and surfer, and a fan of adventure travel, Peter Heller made his debut as a novelist and was hailed as a revelation in 2012 with his page-turner—a post-apocalyptic yet uplifting novel— The Dog Stars. He has continued to demonstrate his talent ever since with The Painter (2014), The River (2019), The Guide (2022) and The Apple Orchard (2024). All have been published in French by Actes Sud. His next novel, Burn, will be published in french, again by Actes Sud, on 16 September 2026.
A look back at previous autumn meetings
This event forms part of the Quais du Polar festival’s annual programme. The autumn events are held every year, and Peter Heller is honouring us with his first-ever participation. He thus follows in the footsteps of Ivy Pochoda, David Joy, Julia Chapman, Qiu Xiaolong, Chris Offutt, David Vann, Ron Rash, Cilla and Rolf Börjlind, Benjamin Whitmer and James Carlos Blake.
