An evening with Susan Fletcher - The Night in Question
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Thu 18th April 2024, 6.30pm
Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way. Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florrie is suspicious. Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer? The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day. And Florrie - cheerfully independent but often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth.
As she does, Florrie finds herself looking back on her own life . . .and a long-buried secret, traced in faded scars across her knuckles, becomes ever harder to ignore. An absorbing and uplifting novel with a uniquely loveable protagonist at its heart. Fletcher's prose is extraordinarily lyrical .
Susan Fletcher will be presenting her latest book - The Night in Question. There will be a Q&A and an opportunity to get your book signed. All attendees will be entered into a competition, with a prize draw with a chance to win a beautiful bunch of flowers! Susan will draw the winning ticket after the event.
General Admission, one person and includes one copy of the book £16.99
General Admission, two people and one copy of the book £20.00
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An evening with Victoria Bennett - All My Wild Mothers : Motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tue 30th April 2024, 6.30pm
At seven months pregnant, Victoria Bennett learns that her sister has died in a canoeing accident. In that moment, her life changes. Five years later, and struggling with the demands of motherhood, grief and full-time care, Victoria and her family move to a new social housing estate in rural Cumbria. Here, in the rubble of a former industrial site, she and her young son begin to grow a wild apothecary garden: daisy, for resilience; dandelion, for strength against adversity; sow thistle, to lift melancholy; and borage, to bring hope in dark and difficult times. Stone by stern, seed by seed, they discover that sometimes life grows, not in spite of what is broken, but because of it. All My Wild Mothers is an intimate memoir of motherhood, a handbook on survival and a testimony to radical hope.
Victoria Bennett will be talking about her latest book All My Wild Mothers. There will be a talk and Q&A and the opportunity to get your book signed.
General Admission, one person and includes one copy of the book £12.99
General Admission, two people and one copy of the book £15.00
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An evening with Georgina Moore - The Garnett Girls
& Ericka Waller - Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Fri 3rd May 2024, 6.30pm
The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore - Forbidden, passionate and all-encompassing, Margo and Richard’s love affair was the stuff of legend– but, ultimately, doomed. When Richard walked out, Margo locked herself away, leaving her three daughters, Rachel, Imogen and Sasha, to run wild. Years later, charismatic Margo entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of Richard and her painful past. But her silence is keeping each of the Garnett girls from finding true happiness. Rachel is desperate to return to London, but is held hostage by responsibility for Sandcove, their beloved but crumbling family home.
Dreamy Imogen feels the pressure to marry her kind, considerate fiancé, even when life is taking an unexpected turn. And wild, passionate Sasha, trapped between her fractured family and controlling husband, is weighed down by a secret that could shake the family to its core…
Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller - Birdie, Ada and Jane are all lost. Life has not turned out as they planned, and all three of them are scared to ask for help, to say yes - or to say no. To take a chance on someone else.
Birdie Greenwing has been at a loose end ever since her beloved twin sister and husband passed away eight years previously. Too proud and stubborn to admit she is lonely, Birdie's world has shrunk. Jane Brown hoped moving to Brighton would be a new start, away from her overbearing mother. While she finds it hard to stand up for herself, her daughter Frankie has no problem telling people what she does and doesn't want. Ada Kowalski thought training to become an Oncologist in England would be a dream come true. In reality she is isolated, exhausted, the professional detachment she has had to develop now threatens to take over her life.
When a series of incidents brings their lives crashing together, these three unlikely allies find that there's always more to a person than meets the eye. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing celebrates female relationships in all their forms. It explores what being a mother means. It is a story about the choices we make and how we justify them. About finding out who we are, not who other people think we should be.
Set on the beautiful beaches of the Isle of Wight, this captivating debut from Georgina Moore asks whether children can ever be free of the mistakes of their parents.
Both authors will discuss their books, common themes and writing process. There will be a Q&A and book signing. Light refreshments will be available.
General Admission £6.00
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An evening with John Connolly -The Instruments of Darkness
Warwick Methodist Church, Warwick, CV34 4TH
Tue 14th May 2024, 6.30pm
25 years since John Connolly introduced millions of readers to Private Investigator Charlie Parker, he returns, with Parker’s darkest and most perplexing case…
A child missing. A mother accused. Charlie Parker Is their only hope.
In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk - has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty.But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old crooked house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built. A house, and what dwells beneath.
John Connolly will be presenting his latest book: The Instruments of Darkness
There will be a Q & A and an opportunity to get books signed.
General Admission, one person and includes one copy of the book £20.00
General Admission, two people and one copy of the book £25.00
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An evening with Guy Hale - The Croaking Raven
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tue 21st May 2024, 6.30pm
DC Toby Marlowe has just landed his dream posting but the quiet streets of Shakespeare's Stratford are about to suffer a reign of terror. A name from the past has returned, intent on revenge.
A series of murders go unsolved but Toby realises that the killer seems to be following the plot of Hamlet. Can Toby and his boss, DS Fred Williams, find the killer before all the actors at the RSC are dead? The Croaking Raven doth bellow for revenge.
Join us for a evening with author Guy Hale talking about his latest book The Croaking Raven. He will talk about his latest book and experieces as an author. There will be a Q&A and Guy will be available to sign copies of his books. Light refreshments will also be provided.
General Admission £6.00
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An evening with Sarah Hilary and Louise Candlish - Sharp Glass and Our Holiday
Warwick Quaker Meeting House - Please use entrance through archway, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tue 9th July 2024
Sarah Hilary - Sharp Glass Trapped in a house by a man who believes she is someone she isn't, one woman must find a way to escape her captor. The last thing she remembers is standing outside the empty house. One she was employed to pack, ready for removal. Her job is her life. It is her compulsion to take care of an owner’s precious possessions, to do whatever it takes to help them move on. Now she is cold, dirty, damp, trapped in its cellar with no chance of escape, miles from anywhere. His prisoner. And then he returns. Her captor believes she holds the answers to why a young girl was murdered a year ago. He refuses to let her go until she reveals her secrets. But he doesn’t know she has hidden depths, and an anger she works hard to control. The battle lines are drawn. They are the only two people who can solve the mystery of the dead girl, but when the truth is revealed whose life will shatter…?
Sarah Hilary's debut, Someone Else's Skin, won the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award and was also a World Book Night selcetion, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a finalist for both the Silver Falchion and the Macavity Awards in the US. No Other Darkness, the secomd in her DI Marnie Rome series, was shortlisted for a Barry Award. The series continued with Tastes Like Fear, Quieter Than Killing, Come and Find Me and Never Be Broken. Sharp Glass is her third standalome novel, following Black Thorn and Fragile.
Louise Candlish - Our Holiday A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of Our House. Charlotte and Perry have owned their cliff top holiday home in Pine Ridge for years. They’ve worked hard for it – why shouldn’t they enjoy it? Even if the locals can’t afford to live in the village these days. Now city friends Amy and Linus have bought a second home nearby and when the two families descend, they plan lazy days at the beach and evenings sipping rosé and watching the sun set from Charlotte’s summer house veranda.But this summer is different. A group of locals – headed by the charismatic Robbie – will stop at nothing to make the second home owners pay for their holiday. By the end of their break, marriages will be torn apart, friendships shattered and crimes exposed.And one of them will have lost their life.
Louise Candlish is the bestselling author of 16 novels and her books are published all over the world. Her book Our House was adapted into a major four-part ITV drama and won the 2019 British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year. She lives in a South London neighbourood not unlike the one in her books, with her husband, daughter (when she's not at uni), and a fox-red Labrador called Bertie who is the apple of her eye.
General Admission £10.00
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“A venue fit for a king! It was a fantastic evening, they had arranged it all perfectly. I am gobsmacked and over the moon all at once!”
We’re delighted to host a rich series of literary events in and around Warwick. These include our popular 'Meet the author' events. The talks usually last about an hour, followed by questions, and then there is an opportunity to meet the speaker and have a book signed. Previous authors Melvyn Bragg, Jodi Picoult, Kate Williams, Professor Edith Hall and Dr Elizabeth Goldring. These events take place across Warwick including the beautiful Lord Leycester Hospital. We also support Warwick Words Festival.
Refreshments provided by local independent businesses are served at all of our events!
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