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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Hostage with Clare Mackintosh

At Home

To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, we're delighted to be hosting a live stream event with bestselling author Clare Mackintosh. You can save hundreds of lives....

£9

Helen Cullen Book Signing

Both Bookshops

Helen Cullen will be visiting both bookshops to sign and personally dedicate copies of her paperback The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually. Chorleywood Bookshop: 10 - 11am Gerrards Cross...

Rob Biddulph Book Signing

The brilliant Rob Biddulph will be visiting both bookshops to sign and personally dedicate copies of his bestselling Draw with Rob series and story books. Chorleywood Bookshop: 2-3pm Gerrards...

Lemony Snicket Live Stream Event

At Home

Calling all Lemony Snicket fans, young and old! A brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events – a cautionary tale...

£6

Snow Country with Sebastian Faulks

CHORLEYWOOD WAR MEMORIAL HALL, COMMON ROAD, CHORLEYWOOD, RICKMANSWORTH WD3 5LN, UK

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters...

£20

A Curious Absence of Chickens with Sophie Grigson

At Home

Joining us live from southern Italy, Sophie Grigson will be chatting to fellow foodie Felicity Cloake about her new life in Puglia and her forthcoming book...

£8

Silent Earth with Dave Goulson

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

Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly grind to a halt; we simply cannot...

£10

The Seven Ages of Death with Dr Richard Shepherd

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

This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life . . . What can death teach us...

£10

An evening with Paula Hawkins

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

Join us for a thrilling evening with bestselling author Paula Hawkins, where she'll be chatting about her brand new novel A Slow Fire Burning. 'What...

£10

Dame Joan Bakewell Live Stream Event

At Home

When Joan Bakewell, Labour Peer, author and famous champion of the older people's right to a good and fruitful life, decided that she could no...

£8