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.
Silent Book Club
Tuesday 24th March
17:45 for a 18:00 Start
The Rose & Crown, Warwick, CV34 4SH
A dedicated, focused reading time in a group, with background noise. Bring the book you want to read and settle in for an hour of joy, with a hot or soft drink of your choice.
Ticket £5 includes a hot or soft drink
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 Stephanie Bramwell-Lawes - Thornby Manor
Tuesday April 21st
18:30 start. Doors open 18:00
Stoughton Gallery, St John’s House, Warwick, CV34 4NF
Join us to celebrate the publication of Stephanie's simmering debut in the atmospheric location of the Stoughton Gallery of St John's House, Warwick. Stephanie will be in conversation with Mog to talk about her novel and her writing process.
More about the book…
Penniless and newly orphaned Briar Monroe finds shelter at Thornby Manor, a brooding estate above a mist-shrouded lake. But whispers of a dead wife, an estranged son and locked-away secrets haunt its corridors …Warwickshire, 1891. Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor.
The great house looms above a mist-shrouded lake, its corridors heavy with secrets – not least the mysterious death of Lady Elizabeth Danville, and the unspoken tensions between her formidable widower and his magnetic son, Gabriel. As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.
Ticket £12
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 Juliano Zaffino - The Steps
Tuesday April 28th
18:30 start. Doors open 18:00
Warwick Books, 24 Market Place, Warwick CV34 4SL
Join us for an evening with Juliano as he talks about his novel The Steps. It will be an in-conversation event.
The first time Derek was ever afraid of the children was two or three weeks in, when Angelo screamed at them for ruining his life and headbutted the plate in front of him until it was shrapnel ...
The Steps unravels the story of Derek and his childhood sweetheart, Sophie, as she relocates from Canada to his home in England with her children, each of them still raw with grief after a recent tragedy. As Derek gets to know “the steps” – Angelo, Ema, Jules, Elio, and Biagia – he finds himself increasingly unsettled by their erratic behaviour, their increasing needs, and the strange happenings that keep him up at night.
As they attempt to build a new life together, the fragile family is shadowed by loss, myth, and an ever-present sense of the uncanny.
Through shifting perspectives, debut novelist Juliano Zaffino paints an unforgettable portrait of love, loyalty, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Blending psychological suspense with intimate family drama, The Steps is both deeply moving and eerily unsettling, a profound meditation on trauma, the bonds that hold families together, the cost of grief and the thin line between tenderness and violence.
Ticket £8
Ticket and a copy of the book £13.99
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
“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!”