Chiltern Bookshops Events

Events

Join us to hear authors chat about their current publication and share the inspiration behind their books. Come alone or with friends – the atmosphere is welcoming and relaxed, and we generally serve refreshments. These are really sociable occasions: great opportunities to meet like-minded people, as well as to hear how a writer thinks or writes or researches. Listening to someone talk about their work – fiction or non-fiction – brings it to life. If you’ve already read the book, you’ll understand it in a new light; if you’ve still to start, then once you’ve had an author’s insights, the words will spring off the page in a very specific and personal way.

The talk generally lasts around an hour, including questions from the audience. Afterwards, there’s usually the chance to meet the writer and ask them to sign a copy of their book.

Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

An afternoon with Jacqueline Wilson

The Reach Free School, Uxbridge Road, Mill End, Rickmansworth WD3 8AB

This spring we're delighted to welcome bestselling children's author Jacqueline Wilson, who'll be talking about her brand new spine-tingling tale The Girl Who Wasn't There. 'And we're...

An evening with Gary Stevenson

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around? Ever...

Meet the Author with Olivia Ford

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

To celebrate the publication of her debut novel Mrs Quinn's Rise to Fame, Olivia Ford will be visiting the bookshop to share a cuppa and a...

An evening with Alan Johnson

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

THERE'S BLOOD ON THE WATER. NO ONE IS SAFE... 1999. A young Detective Constable Louise Mangan crosses the Thames one misty morning in pursuit of...

An evening with Helen Lederer

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

Helen Lederer was a regular on the stand-up circuit and new-wave sketch shows in the decade that launched the careers of today’s comedy household names and...

An evening with Jack Cornish

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout our history  Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into – and...

An evening with Jane Cholmeley

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the...

An evening with Liz Earle

King's Church Amersham, Raans Road HP6 6LX Raans Road, Amersham, United Kingdom

Join women's health champion and wellbeing expert Liz Earle MBE for an evening celebrating the publication of her new book A Better Second Half. We all know that...

An evening with Frances Tophill

Chorleywood Memorial Hall, Common Road, Chorleywood, WD3 5LN

Join Gardeners' World presenter Frances Tophill, as we celebrate the release of her new book, A Year in a Small Garden. This wonderful book follows...

An evening with Robert Hutton

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with...