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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Born Lippy with Jo Brand

St Clement Danes School Chenies Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all...

£20

The Second Sleep with Robert Harris

St Clement Danes School Chenies Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with...

£20

An evening with Jon Sopel – SOLD OUT

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

Welcome to the White House. At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is...

£20

The Unmumsy Mum returns!

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

  Chorleywood Bookshop welcomes back the Sunday Times No 1 Bestselling Author, Blogger, Mother and (self proclaimed) Procrastinator: Sarah Turner, AKA The Unmumsy Mum. Hear...

£15

The Confession with Jessie Burton

Garden Room, Chenies Manor Rickmansworth WD3 6ER

Spend an evening with Chorleywood Bookshop and Jessie Burton discussing her sensational new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse....

£8

Dambusters raid with military historian Max Hastings

St Clement Danes School Chenies Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth

A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and...

£10

The poetry of life with Gyles Brandreth

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

Gyles Brandreth is returning to Chorleywood! Between a curation of the nation’s favourite poems, Gyles Brandreth’s new book interweaves a passionate and rousing manifesto on...

£18

Britain in the First World War with Simon Heffer

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

Drawing heavily on original material – letters, diaries, official papers – Simon Heffer's hugely ambitious new book follows Britain's path from the day the fatal...

£10

A chilling night with Louise Doughty

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

The thrilling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, Louise Doughty. Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The...

£15