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 Ruth Jones

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

Join us for an evening with award winning television writer, actor and bestselling author Ruth Jones, who'll be talking about her new novel Love Untold....

£15

An afternoon with Raynor Winn

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

Join us for an afternoon with Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path and The Wild Silence. Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's...

£15

An evening with Peter James

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

Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of Peter James’s award-winning detective series. Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed...

£12

An evening with Anton Du Beke

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

The King of Ballroom returns to Chorleywood to chat about his brilliant new Buckingham novel The Ballroom Blitz. September 1940. As the skies split apart...

£15

Conn Iggulden Book Signing

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

To celebrate 'Bookshop Day', bestselling author Conn Iggulden will be visiting Chorleywood Bookshop to sign copies of his latest novel 'Lion'.

An evening with Iain Dale

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

Take a journey through Britain's political history, told in 365 fascinating events. From the first meeting of an elected English parliament on 20 January 1265...

£15

An evening with Max Hastings

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

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet...

£15

Andy Griffiths Book Signing

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

We can't wait to welcome Andy Griffiths, the award-winning author of the hilarious Treehouse Storey books, to the bookshop. Joining us all the way from Australia, Andy...

An evening with Wendy Holden & Eva Clarke

St Helen’s School Eastbury Road (Main Entrance) Northwood HA3 3AS Eastbury Road (Main Entrance), Northwood, Middlesex, United Kingdom

In association with Events at St Helen's School, Born Survivors is an inspirational and emotional story of resilience and maternal courage, as three pregnant women fight for...

£10

An evening with Ian Rankin

Dr Challoner's High School (Girls School), Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont, HP7 9QB Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont, United Kingdom

Join us for an evening with bestselling crime writer Ian Rankin. John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars...

£15