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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* POSTPONED * How to write your first novel, a Masterclass with Adele Parks

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

We welcome number one Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks to Chorleywood on May 19th at 7pm at Chorleywood Library.

Adele will give a creative writing masterclass on writing your first novel plus a talk about her new book "Just my Luck".

Adele will offer encouragement and a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other practical guide to the elusive art, craft and graft of fiction writing.

The course will cover topics such as:

Motives for writing
Can writing be taught?
Time and space for your novel
Practical conditions to optimise output
Theme
Character
Plot
Experimenting with prose
Editing

£30

* POSTPONED * Mich Turner Showstopper Cakes

Chenies Manor House Chenies, WD3 6ER

Local celebrity baker Mich Turner is coming to Chenies Manor with her book, Everyday Bakes to Showstopper Cakes, a collection of recipes to take you all the way from the delicious everyday through to the spectacular

£10

* Cancelled * Women’s Health – Sex Matters with Dr. Alyson J. McGregor

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get the right care for their bodies, with practical suggestions for what women can do.

An exposé and practical guide to help women take control of their own health to get the care they need.

Sex Matters tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women's health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women – an omission that endangers women's lives.

Leading expert on sex and gender medicine Dr. Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing:

❖ Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women

❖ Prescription and dosing of pharmaceuticals

❖ Subjective evaluation of women's symptoms ❖ Pain and pain management

❖ Hormones and female biochemistry (including prescribed hormones)

❖ How economic status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors

£10

*POSTPONED* Literary Lunch with David Mitchell at Chorleywood Golf Course

Chorleywood Golf Club Common Rd, Chorleywood

Invitation to a Literary Lunch with David Mitchell
1st June, Midday, Chorleywood Golf Club
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author David Mitchell of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, "one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country" - Independent.

Doors open 12 midday, sit down lunch at 12.30pm
Venue Chorleywood Golf Club, Common Road, Chorleywood WD3 5LN
Tickets £35 to include a 2 course lunch and a copy of Utopia Avenue RRP £20
Available from www.chilternbookshops.co.uk or
Chorleywood Bookshop 01923 283566

£35.00

*POSTPONED* The Roasting Tin Around the World: Global One Dish Dinners

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

The Roasting Tin Around the World: Global One Dish Dinners
with Rukmini Iyer - June 8th 7.00pm - Chorleywood Memorial Hall 
The Roasting Tin series by bestselling cookery writer Rukmini Iyer is probably the most useful set of books you can have in your kitchen. Fans and new readers alike will be thrilled with her latest, The Roasting Tin Around the World which includes dishes from all corners of the globe with 75 brand new recipes.

£10

*POSTPONED* Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen by Alison Weir

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

Alison Weir is the top-selling female historian (and the fifth-bestselling historian overall) in the United Kingdom having sold over 3 million books worldwide. She has published nineteen history books, including her most recent non-fiction book, Queens of the Conquest, the first in her England’s Medieval Queens quartet. Alison has also published ten historical novels. We look forward to welcoming Alison to Chorleywood on Monday 15th June at 7pm at the Chorleywood Memorial Hall Common Road Chorleywood WD3 5LN. Tickets £10.

"Six Tudor Queens : Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen" RRP £20 will be just £18 on the night.

£10

Chorleywood Bookshop Virtual Quiz Night

At Home

To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, we'll be hosting our very first virtual quiz night in collaboration with Macmillan Collector's Library. There will be 6 exciting...

£3

Children’s Pop-Up Bookshop

Cassiobury Junior School Bellmount Wood Avenue, Watford, United Kingdom

On Saturday 27th June, we're excited to be hosting a children's 'pop-up bookshop' at the wonderful Cassiobury Junior School, Watford, WD17 3BN. There will be a wide range...

Rachel Joyce Live Stream Event

At Home

Rachel Joyce in conversation with Hannah Beckerman Join us for a live steam event with bestselling author Rachel Joyce, as she discusses her new novel...

£20

Roger Morgan-Grenville Live Stream Event

At Home

Join us for an uplifting live stream event with Roger Morgan-Grenville, as he talks about his book Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife...

£15