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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Hamnet with Maggie O’Farrell

At Home

To celebrate the paperback release of the award winning HAMNET, we're delighted to welcome prize winning Maggie O'Farrell back to Chorleywood for a virtual evening in. On a...

£8

Shearwater with Roger Morgan-Grenville

At Home

Ten weeks into its life, a Manx shearwater chick will emerge from its burrow and fly 8,000 miles from the west coast of the British...

£6

Children’s Online Creative Writing Workshop

At Home

Keep their imaginations alive this Easter with our Children’s Creative Writing Workshop. Join children’s author Francesca Gibbons for an exciting online workshop, suitable for budding...

£30

Open Water with Caleb Azumah Nelson

At Home

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to...

£6

All Dogs Great and Small with Graeme Hall

At Home

Have you ever wished you could get the dogs in your life to behave better? Graeme Hall ‘The Dogfather’, star of Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving...

£8

The Governor with Vanessa Frake

At Home

Violence. Drugs. Killers. Riots. Welcome to the world of the Governor. Having worked for 16 years in a high security women’s prison dealing with the...

£6

Barbarossa with Jonathan Dimbleby

At Home

Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to...

£10

Toto the Ninja Cat with Dermot O’Leary

At Home

Join Dermot (and Toto) for some mysterious after school fun! Toto is no ordinary cat, and she can't wait for you to join her on...

£6

Money and Power with Vince Cable

At Home

We're delighted to be welcoming economist and politician Vince Cable to our virtual stage, where he'll be discussing his new title Money and Power. Through...

£8