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 evening with Joanna Miller – The Eights
Friends Meeting House (Quaker Society of Friends), Warwick, CV34 4AX
Thursday 4th June 2026, 6.30pm
Join us for an in-conversation event for the paperback launch of Joanna Miller's fantastic, critically acclaimed bestselling historical novel, The Eights.
More about the book...following the unlikely friendship of four of the first ever women to study at Oxford University: a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a world that has changed forever.
Ticket + 1 book £9.99
2 Tickets + 1 book £16.00
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An evening with Lucy Waverley - Noble Beasts
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tuesday 23rd June 2026, 6.30pm
London, the summer of 1858: as a choking miasma drives the city’s elite into retreat, Sir Edwin Landseer works himself to the brink. England demands its lions, four monumental beasts to guard Nelson’s Column, and after fifteen years of delay, failure is not an option. But as the bronze creatures stalk his alcohol‐soaked dreams, Landseer’s mind slips between fever and memory.
In his dreams, he is no longer a celebrated artist unravelling under pressure, but the brilliant unknown young painter he once was. The story sweeps across decades, from the squalor and splendour of Victorian London back to the waning Regency, when the irresistible Duchess - older, captivating, and far beyond his station - first storms into his life.
Noble Beasts weaves the misted romance of the Scottish Highlands with the charged history of Trafalgar Square. It follows Landseer’s fraught ties to the Royal Academy and the Queen herself, tracing the turbulent path that ends in his declaration of insanity in 1872. And it delves into the notorious rumour: that the young artist famed for painting dogs, deer, and the Monarch of the Glen may have taken far more from the Duke of Bedford than artistic commissions.
Ticket £8
Ticket and a copy of the book £16.99
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 Laura Blake - Go Home Birdie Brown
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tuesday 14th July 2026, 6.30pm
Join us for an evening with birmingham based author Laura Blake as she talks in conversation with Mog about her debut novel, Go Home Birdie Brown.
More about the book.....Birdie has come too far to go quietly … A powerful and emotional novel inspired by the Windrush Scandal, for fans of All My Mothers by Joanna Glen and Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez This is a story about being told you don’t belong. This is a story about knowing you do. This is a story about Birdie.
Birdie Brown’s life is held together by family — her sharp-witted daughter Carmen, her son Scott who no one mentions, and five grandkids who keep her on her toes. Retirement is bingo nights, babysitting, and TV with her granddaughter Saffie — until a letter from the Home Office arrives. It says she’s here illegally.
That she must return to Jamaica — a country she hasn’t seen since childhood. As the system threatens to erase her, Birdie must confront buried truths and fractured ties. Can she hold on to the life she built — and the family that built her?
Ticket £8
Ticket and a copy of the book £20.00
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An evening with Lindsey Davis - Murder in Purple and Gold
Friends Meeting House (Quaker Society of Friends), Warwick, CV34 4AX
Tuesday 21st July 2026, 6.30pm
Prepare to be entertained by the dry, sharp wit of Lindsey Davis, the Godmother of Roman crime, who'll be talking about her latest novel, Murder in Purple and Gold which is the 14th book in the Flavia Albia series.
More about the book.....when Flavia Albia stumbles upon the murdered corpse of a young man near Rome's famous Circus Maximus, she is about to embark on one of her most dangerous and complicated cases. Rome and the Romans are obsessed with chariot racing. Lepo was the rising star of the Purples, a new team created by the psychotic Emperor Domitian with big money backing.
Suspicion immediately falls on Lepo's greatest rival, Agathon, a young man emerging from a rival team, the Golds. Convinced of his guilt, a lynch mob is hunting him. The Golds faction hire Flavia to clear their man's name.
He appears to have an alibi for the night of the murder but, as Flavia soon finds out, nothing is as it seems in the dangerous and glamorous world of the charioteers in which fortunes can be won or lost in seconds and violent death in the arena is always just one race away.
Ticket £8
Ticket and a copy of the book £20.00
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An afternoon with David Baldacci - Hope Rises
Castle Hill Baptist Church, Warwick, CV34 4EX
Friday 31st July 2026, 2pm
Join us for an afternoon with 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, 6.30pm
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, 6.30pm
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, 6.30pm
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
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
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