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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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

Chorleywood War Memorial Hall Common Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

SOLD OUT: Join Chorleywood Bookshop and Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, who brings her new book "Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister" to the...

£8

The Mountbattens as not seen before with Andrew Lownie

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

Welcome back the prize-winning and best selling historian Andrew Lownie and his new book to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Lord Mountbatten...

£8

The Game that Won the War with Simon Parkin

Chorleywood War Memorial Hall Common Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

We are delighted to welcome investigative journalist and award-winning feature writer Simon Parkin, who will tell us the tale of Operation Raspberry and its unsung...

£10

The Poetry Pharmacy with William Sieghart

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood

UPDATE: Radio 4 recording BBC Radio 4 are interested in recording our event for a programme of "The World at One" in December with Emily...

£15

How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood

We are delighted to welcome Julian Baggini, Microphilosopher and Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. His book "How the World Thinks" is an...

£8

Shaun Wallace Autobiography Signing

Both Bookshops

PLEASE NOTE:  Signings will be in both bookstores; Chorleywood 10-11am and Gerrards Cross 11.30am to 12.30pm NO NEED TO BOOK PLEASE JUST COME ALONG Shaun...

£19.99

Christmas Dates

Choosing a present for the special people in your life shouldn't be something you do in a hurry.  Here at the bookshop, we love a...

Lady In Waiting: Lady Anne Glenconner

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

"If your jaw doesn’t drop at least three times every chapter, you’ve not been paying proper attention" ... so says the Sunday Times review of...

£20 – £30

Gift a Book 2019

This Christmas Chorleywood and Gerrards Cross Bookshops are giving back and we need your help to do it! To read is one of the greatest...

£5 – £20