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.

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An evening with The Reverend Richard Coles

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

Join us for an evening with the Reverend Richard Coles, as he returns to Chorleywood to chat about his new novel A Death on Location, the...

An evening with Mariella Frostrup & Belles Berry

Sarratt Village Hall, The Green, Sarratt, WD3 6AS The Green, Sarratt, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

This August, join broadcaster and menopause awareness campaigner Mariella Frostrup and chef (and daugher of Mary Berry) Belles Berry as they chat about their brilliant new cookbook Menolicious. An essential...

An evening with Andrew Lownie

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

Entitled is the first joint biography of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson by renowned royal biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie. Packed full of...

An evening with Michael Rosen

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

Discover a world where finding joy is as simple as ABC. In an uncertain world, we need hope and happiness more than ever. So what...

An evening with James Fox

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

Join academic and award-winning BAFTA-nominated BBC broadcaster James Fox this September, as he chats about Craftland: a look at the ancient connection between our creative...

An evening with Tracy Borman

We can't wait to welcome acclaimed historian Tracy Borman, who'll be chatting about her fascinating new book The Stolen Crown. In March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I,...

An evening with Sebastian Faulks

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

‘The only dividend of the years’ vanishing, as far as I can see, is that it makes aspects of the past appear more interesting or...

An evening with Valentine Low

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

The follow-up to the bestselling Courtiers, Power and the Palace lifts the lid on the intimate relationship between the sovereign and the government. Examining how the relationship between...

An evening with Lady Hale

RMS for Girls, Rickmansworth Park, Rickmansworth, WD3 4HF

Our laws and justice system are vast and ancient: they might touch our lives when we have an accident, a wrong is done to us,...

An evening with Saul David

Join military historian and bestselling author Saul David, as he chats about his epic new book Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa On 8 November 1942, British and...