Events
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.
Author Events
An afternoon with Susie Dent
Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United KingdomWe can't wait to chat with Susie Dent about her debut novel Guilty by Definition. She'd known there would be ghosts in Oxford. Martha wasn't afraid of any...
An evening with Tom Parker Bowles
Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United KingdomJoin award-winning food writer Tom Parker Bowles for an evening exploring royal culinary history. From breakfasts, picnic lunches and dinners, to coronations and state banquets, Cooking and the...
An evening with Simon Heffer
Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United KingdomThe English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity...
An evening with Jenny Eclair
Chorleywood Memorial Hall, Common Road, Chorleywood, WD3 5LNHow did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up? Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves...
An evening with John Lewis-Stempel
Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom‘That John Lewis-Stempel is one of the best nature writers of his generation is undisputed.’ – Country Life Our countryside is iconic: a series of...
An evening with Ned Palmer
Sarratt Village Hall, The Green, Sarratt, WD3 6AS The Green, Sarratt, Rickmansworth, United KingdomJoin expert Cheesemonger Ned Palmer, for a celebration of all things French cheese! Charles de Gaulle famously said it was impossible to govern a country...
Sarah, Duchess of York Book Signing
Gerrards Cross Bookshop 12a Packhorse Road, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomCome and meet bestselling author and philanthropist Sarah, Duchess of York, as she visits Gerrards Cross Bookshop to sign copies of her new children’s picture...
An afternoon with Iain Dale
Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United KingdomWere the signs that Putin is a ruthless dictator there all along? How should we deal with President Xi of China? Given the world seems...
An evening with Julian Clary
RMS for Girls Rickmansworth Park, Rickmansworth, United KingdomWe can't wait to welcome author, actor and comedian Julian Clary to Chorleywood, where he'll be chatting about his new novel Curtain Call to Murder. It is opening...
An evening with Rory Cellan-Jones
The Reach Free School, Uxbridge Road, Mill End, Rickmansworth WD3 8ABIn January 2022, the Cellan-Jones-Coyle family said goodbye to their beloved elderly Collie Cross, Cabbage. Newly retired, Rory had become inseparable from her during daily...