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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An evening with Jack Cornish

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout our history  Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into – and...

An evening with Jane Cholmeley

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the...

An evening with Liz Earle

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

Join women's health champion and wellbeing expert Liz Earle MBE for an evening celebrating the publication of her new book A Better Second Half. We all know that...

An evening with Frances Tophill

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

Join Gardeners' World presenter Frances Tophill, as we celebrate the release of her new book, A Year in a Small Garden. This wonderful book follows...

An evening with Robert Hutton

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with...

Chorleywood Crime Panel

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

Get ready for another gripping Chorleywood Crime Panel, featuring bestselling authors Helen Fields, Erin Kelly and Fiona Cummins (Chair). Profile K - Helen Fields What would you do if you found...

An evening with Clover Stroud

Chorleywood Bookshop 7 New Parade, Chorleywood, United Kingdom

We can't wait to welcome Clover Stroud back to Chorleywood, to chat about her latest book The Giant on the Skyline. What is it that makes...

An evening with Wes Streeting

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

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bill, an unsuccessful armed robber, spent time behind bars, as did...

An evening with Giles Milton

Chorleywood Library Lower Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom

From bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies’ secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler...

An evening with Bernie Collins

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

Experience the action of Formula 1 through the eyes of an award-winning Team Strategist Welcome to Bernie Collins’ world. Formula 1 drivers are the public...