We’re delighted to host a rich series of literary events in and around Warwick. These include our popular 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, Kit de Waal, Robert Harris, Professor Edith Hall, Dr Elizabeth Goldring, Cressida Cowell and Michael Morpurgo. These events take place across Warwick including the beautiful Lord Leycester Hospital. We also support Warwick Words History Festival.
An afternoon with David Baldacci - Hope Rises
Castle Hill Baptist Church, Warwick, CV34 4EX
Friday 31st July 2026, 14:00pm
Join us for an afternoon with bestselling author David Baldacci in conversation with author and critic Sarah Ward.
Celebrating the latest gripping thriller from the multimillion copy global bestseller Walter Nash returns…An ordinary family man thrown into a dangerous underworld. Once upon a time, Walter Nash was a mild-mannered, hard-working, happy man. Minding his own business, looking after his family. Everything changed when the FBI revealed his company as a criminal empire and enlisted him in a daring mission to dismantle it. Driven by justice and revenge, Nash was forced to dive into a very dark world… One that shattered his life. Underestimate Water Nash at your peril, because a man who has lost everything is capable of anything…Walter Nash isn’t the man he used to be. But when everything crumbles, hope rises…
David Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author, and one of the world’s favourite thriller writers. A former trial lawyer with a keen interest in world politics, he has specialist knowledge of the US political system and intelligence services. His first book, Absolute Power, became an instant international hit, with the movie starring Clint Eastwood a major box office success. He has since written more than fifty novels featuring a variety of characters including Walter Nash, Travis Devine, Amos Decker and Aloysius Archer.
David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across the US.
Ticket only £12.00
Single Ticket and one copy of the book £20.00
Two Tickets and one copy of the book £30.00
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An evening with Abigail Johnson - The Memory Keeper
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tuesday 4th August 2026, 18.30pm
Join us for an evening with Abigail Johnson in conversation talking about her latest book The Memory Keeper.
Sometimes ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference . . .
Meet Gracie. At mid-life she’s fed up with her unhappy marriage and humdrum career, so when a new housing estate threatens to sever the last connection to her late father, the oak tree he planted as a child, she decides to take a stand – only, Gracie has never stood up to anyone.
When five-year-old neighbour Tilly unexpectedly bounds into her life, she shows Gracie that you shouldn’t always take no for an answer. Despite revelations of long-buried family secrets and conflicts taking root, perhaps this could be the beginning of a new chapter, one in which Gracie finally discovers her inner strength and realises that even in the face of loss, there is hope.
Full of warmth and joyful community, this is the uplifting story of one woman’s journey towards letting go of the past and creating memories worth holding onto . . .
Ticket and a copy of the book £9.99
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An evening with Romalyn Ante - The Left-Behind Child
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tuesday 18th August 2026, 18:30pm
Join us for an in-conversation event with the extraordinary poet and now novelist Romayn Ante to talk about her debut The Left-Behind Child.
More about the book... a mother forced to leave her family. A daughter forced to reckon with what is left behind. Lipa, Philippines, 2001.
Neneng is 11 when her mother, Rosa, leaves to work as a nurse overseas: abandoning Neneng to care for a distant father, unsettled relatives and rebellious siblings. Their home shatters, and Neneng finds herself facing womanhood alone. From that point on, she vows never to become a nurse, and never to trust her mother again.
But Neneng is more like the strong-minded Rosa than she realises. As Neneng fights to survive and build a new life, the darknesses in the family’s past come to light, and the reasons why Rosa needed to leave become clearer. When a twist of fate brings a new mother figure into her orbit, Neneng will come to understand why the profession of nursing matters so deeply to Rosa and – when crisis strikes – what ‘care’ means to Neneng.
Ticket £8
Ticket and a copy of the book £16.99
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An evening with Rachel Morley - Church Crawling
St Peter's, Wellesbourne, CV35 9LS
Tuesday 15th September 2026, 18:30pm
Rachel Morley is a building conservator who is Director of the Friends of Friendless Churches, which rescues, repairs and re-opens unwanted old churches. She is also judge for the John Betjeman Award for Church Conservation and Repair, and has served as Chair and Trustee of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
Church Crawling is a transporting and gloriously entertaining journey through the hidden lives of England’s rural parish churches.
The poet John Betjeman coined the phrase ‘church crawling’ to describe his days out visiting churches. In the spirit of Betjeman, Morley’s book captures the magical experience of poking around a deserted rural church only to see it transform – through her expert eyes – into a portal to the past, one that brings England’s people and history to life in the most colourful, moving and unexpected ways.
Through their wall-paintings and monuments, their graffiti and plaques, carved beams and crypts, their jumble of furniture and oddities, Morley shows these buildings to be the living expression of centuries of communal history and folk culture, time capsules of wonder and connection. The stories they contain are both boisterous and tender, raucous and sublime, transporting us to the ancient and medieval past, to revolutions and wars, to lives both glorious and humble.
Often the oldest and most significant building in a settlement, churches are where for centuries births have been celebrated, relationships consecrated and deaths memorialised, where the great and enduring mysteries have been contemplated, and where the ghosts of countless, unnamed, normal lives are to be found. As Rachel Morley shows, the concentration of human experience within their walls is so rich and so layered, that they offer as close an encounter with the past as it is possible to get.
Ticket £8.00
Ticket and a copy of the book £18.99
Booking is essential. Please book tickets in the shop or through TicketSource, where a small booking fee will be applied: www.ticketsource.co.uk/warwick-books
An evening with Robert Harris - Agrippa
Warwick Methodist Church, Warwick, CV34 4TH
Monday 21st September 2026, 18.30pm
Join bestselling authors Robert Harris and Lindsey Davis as they talk about all things Roman and Robert's forthcoming book Agrippa.
More about the book...
Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir.
The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa.
To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and, against all odds, they win. Octavius becomes the Emperor Augustus. For twenty years, they rule the world together.
Now Agrippa is fifty. Ailing and alone, betrayed by his wife’s infidelity, he takes refuge in his house on the Bay of Naples and begins to write his memoirs. Yet to stir up the past can be dangerous. From his earliest meetings with Julius Caesar, through the epic conflict with Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the great naval battle of Actium and the endless wars to expand the empire, he describes how one man has dominated his life: the cunning, ruthless, unknowable Octavius.
When it comes to power, does friendship exist at all?
One Ticket and a copy of the book £20.00
Two tickets and a copy of the book £30.00
Booking is essential. Please book tickets in the shop or through TicketSource, where a small booking fee will be applied: www.ticketsource.co.uk/warwick-books
“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!”
“Huge thanks for a fab event yesterday!”