Welcome to our website. This is the online home of both our lovely shops: the Chorleywood Bookshop and the Gerrards Cross Bookshop. If you want to book places for one of our many high profile events, purchase a limited edition book, or find out how to get hold of us to place orders or make a query, you’re in the right place!
We would love you to pop in to one of our shops too. The best thing about owning independent bookshops is hearing all about the books you love (and hate!) and sharing our passion for reading with you.
To step in to the Chorleywood or Gerrards Cross bookshop is to be a part of our community so please do come and say hello.
Click on any of the events to be taken to the relevant page for more information and to book your spaces.
Whats on 2019:
Extraordinary Insects with Professor Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson on Tuesday 23rd April, 7pm at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
Bodies in the Library with Erin Kelly and Harriet Tyce on Wednesday 24th April, 7.30pm at Chorleywood Library, Lower Road, Chorleywood, WD3 5LB
9 Lessons in Brexit with with Ivan Rogers on Monday 29th April, 7.30pm at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
The Chorleywood Bookshop will be hosting the launch for Slow Travel: The Chilterns and the Thames Valley by Helen and Neil Matthews and The Country of Larks: A Chiltern Journey by Gail Simmons on Tuesday 30th April, 6.30pm
A Midwife’s Story with Leah Hazard on Thursday May 2nd, 7pm at Chorleywood Library, WD3 5LB
Helen and Neil Matthews will be signing copies of Slow Travel: The Chilterns and the Thames Valley on Saturday 4th May from 10.00-12.00pm Chorleywood Bookshop, WD3 5NJ and 2.00-4.00pm Gerrards Cross Bookshop, SL9 7QE
The Pet Detectives: Colin Butcher & Molly the cocker spaniel on Thursday 9th May,7pm at The Garden Room, Chenies Manor, WD3 6ER
An afternoon with Bev Thomas on Tuesday 14th May, 12pm at The Garden Room, Chenies Manor, Chenies, WD3 6ER
A Breed Apart with Adam Henson on Thursday 16th May, 7pm at Sarratt Village Hall, WD3 6AS
Meet forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd on Monday 20th May, 7pm at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
Rival Queens with Kate Williams on Thursday 23rd May, 7pm at The Garden Room, Chenies Manor House, Chenies, WD3 6ER
Bletchley Park and D Day with David Kenyon on Wednesday 29th May, 7pm at Chorleywood Library, WD3 5LB
A Night with Victoria Hislop on Friday 31st May at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
My Life as a Forensic Psychologist with Kerry Daynes on Monday 3rd June, 7pm at Chorleywood Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
I Never Knew That About Coastal England with Christopher Winn on Thursday 6th June, 7pm at Chorleywood Library WD3 5LB
Tudor Queens with Alison Weir on Friday 7th June, 7pm at Chorleywood Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess with Amanda Owen on Wednesday 12th June, 7.45pm at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
Born Lippy with Jo Brand on Friday 14th June, 7pm at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
The Midult’s: Annabel Rivkin & Emilie McMeekan on Monday 17th June, 7pm at Chorleywood Library, WD3 5LB
The Other Half of Augusta Hope with Joanna Glen on Tuesday 18th June, 12pm at The Garden Room, Chenies Manor, WD3 6ER
The Rosie Result with Graeme Simsion on Wednesday 19th June, 7pm at Chorleywood Library Lower Road Chorleywood WD3 5LB
Half a World Away with Mike Gayle on Wednesday 26th June, 7pm
at Chorleywood Library,WD3 5LB
After the End with Clare Mackintosh Tuesday 2nd July, 7pm at The Garden Room, Chenies Manor House, Chenies, WD3 6ER
Hitler’s British Isles with Duncan Barrett on Tuesday 9th July, 7pm
at Chorleywood Library, Lower Road, Chorleywood, WD3 5LB
Fantastic fiction with Deborah Moggach on Wednesday 10th july, 7.45pm at Chorleywood Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
The Second Sleep with Robert Harris on Wednesday 11th September, 7pm at St Clement Danes School, WD3 6EW
Britain in the First World War with Simon Heffer on Monday 23rd September, 7pm at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
Creative Writing Course at Chenies Manor with Wendy Holden on Tuesday 15th & Wednesday 16th October, 9.15am to 5.30pm at Chenies Manor House, Chenies, Rickmansworth, WD3 6ER
An evening with Joanna Cannon and Nathan Filer on Monday 28th October, 7pm at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, WD3 5LN
Our services
We offer a 24-hour call and collect service. Phone us or pop in before 5pm and your book can be ready for collection the very next day. This means you have millions of books at your fingertips.
We offer a premium gift-wrapping services to add those special touches to your all-important gift. Simply choose from our beautiful range of paper, ribbons and gift tags and we will do the hard work for you.
Shopping through Hive Bookshops means you can shop online and support your local bookshop. Best of both worlds! Simply order through the Chorleywood Bookshop or Gerrards Cross Bookshop Hive profile depending on which is nearer to you, and it will be promptly delivered.
We are chock-full of fantastic public events which fulfill our aims of bringing real books to real people. See literature come to life at our events which range from our festivals (The Chorleywood Literary Festival and the Chorleywood Children’s Literary Festival) to evenings out with some of the world’s most famous authors.
Plus, don’t miss our school events. We love taking books into schools as this is where passions come to life. We work with schools in a variety of ways, bringing authors, selling books and helping with library recommendations. We are always looking for new ways to engage students of all ages with books, so if you are a teacher and have any ideas you’d like to make happen, click here to work with us.
But don’t just take our word for it! Here are some of the things our lovely customers have said about us:
“I ordered a book for my housebound mother-in-law and, when they found out it was for her birthday, they gift wrapped it and delivered it to her door, with a card, all within 24 hours! Thank you.”
Devora Rejwan
“They have brought the community together through promoting greater literacy with school events, book festivals, writing competitions and organising book clubs, bringing in well known national authors and celebrities as well as supporting local authors.”
Robert A.
“This small but mighty store is a real pleasure to deal with; they have a passion and energy that is infectious and uplifting.”
Kerry Hood, Publicity Director, Hodder and Stoughton
Click on the heart to be taken to our Testimonials page where there is even more love!
