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 Stephanie Bramwell-Lawes - Thornby Manor
Tuesday April 21st SOLD OUT
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
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An evening with Rod Fielding - Cause and Effect
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
Tuesday 5th May 2026, 6.30pm
Join us to celebrate the launch of Rod Fielding’s debut, Cause and Effect.
A little more of what to expect……a crisp autumn morning greets the nation’s commuters. But one man will stop at nothing to ensure they never complete their journey...
When the multi-millionaire owner of one of the largest transport and logistics companies in the UK attempts to paralyse the country’s motorway network via a co-ordinated terrorist attack, disillusioned police detective, Dan Tyler, must fight his own demons in a bid to prevent the impending disaster. But with the clock ticking, and the blame being deflected onto an innocent band of environmental activists, will Dan find a way to stop this plot in time?
Ticket £8 / Ticket and a copy of the book £11.99
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 John Nichol - Blitz : When World War Two Came Home
St Nicholas Church - Warwick, Warwick, CV34 4JD
Thursday 21st May 2026, 6.30pm
Join bestselling author and former RAF Tornado navigator John Nichol as he talks in conversation with John Jefferies about his new book “BLITZ - When World War Two Came Home”, and his own experience as a prisoner-of-war during the 1991 Gulf War.Though May 2026 marks the 85th anniversary of the supposed end of the blitz, the assault across Britain lasted for most of the Second World War causing many thousands more deaths. Nichol tells the story of the blitz afresh, beginning with his mother’s experiences in Tyneside, expanding to recount the full impact across the nation, from Dover to Glasgow, Coventry to Bath, Cardiff to Manchester. Using official records, eyewitness testimonies, and interviews some of the few living survivors, he tells the story of what he calls the ‘provincial blitz’, a nationwide struggle that shaped the course of the war and the spirit of a generation.
BLITZ uncovers accounts of heroic firefighters battling infernos, the unflinching bravery required to defuse unexploded bombs, families wiped out in an instant, the children evacuated from cities across the UK, communities left bereft by a single blast. John tells the incredible stories of the unsung heroes who endured explosions, fire and fear, but found the courage to run towards danger. And to shine light on the stories, he speaks to their modern counterparts, such as the firefighters who tackled the tragic blaze at Grenfell Tower. Finally, as new military threats emerge, Nichol asks whether the country still has such resilience today. John Nichol served in the Royal Air Force for fifteen years. On active duty during the first Gulf War, his Tornado bomber was shot down during a mission over Iraq. Captured and tortured, John was paraded on television, provoking worldwide condemnation and leaving one of the most enduring images of the conflict. He is the bestselling co-author of Tornado Down and author of many highly acclaimed Second World War epics including Spitfire and Lancaster, all of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. BLITZ is John’s twentieth book.
One Ticket and a copy of the book £20.00
Two Tickets and a copy of the book £30.00
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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 Lindsey Davis - Murder in Purple and Gold
Warwick Books, Warwick, CV34 4SL
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 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
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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