Summer Reading Celebration

Our annual Summer Reading Celebration returns! Weather permitting we'll be under the bunting strewn pergola in the courtyard behind the bookshop, serving Pimms, wine, soft drinks and snacks (all included with your ticket).

We have five wonderful authors introducing their new books, plus some of our booksellers will share their favourite reads of the year so far, and we'll be handing out money-off vouchers, and have a few other surprises too

Your line-up for this year:

TOM HINDLE is a Sunday Times bestselling murder mystery writer, inspired by masters of the crime genre such as Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz. He is the author of A Fatal Crossing, The Murder Game, Murder on Lake Garda and Death in the Arctic which will be released in paperback this September. You can pre-order a signed copy on the evening.

When aspiring travel writer Chloé Campbell is invited aboard a luxury airship flying to the North Pole, she thinks she’s bagged the opportunity of a lifetime. But she hasn’t had long to admire the dazzling icy views before a fellow passenger is found dead in their cabin. Trapped at the top of the world, the group agrees a tragic accident has occurred.But as the hours tick by, fear turns to doubt. It seems everyone’s a suspect. And it isn’t long before the passengers begin to turn on each other .

KATE LORD BROWN is a novelist and journalist. Her book The Golden Hour was inspired by her years living and working in the Middle East. An epic dual timeline story which interweaves glory-seeking desert archaeologists, priceless treasures, Nefertiti’s tomb and the decadent cabarets of WW2 Cairo with restless expat lives in bohemian Beirut. Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore & Victoria Hislop.

JP SHEERIN lives locally. An award-winning screenwriter, Marley's Ghosts is his first novel, and has been a bestseller for us in the bookshop. It features Jake Marley, a police detective, recently retired to a village in Wiltshire. Prompted by signs from the universe, he undertakes a long overdue journey of discovery across Europe, ultimately finding himself on a walking holiday in the Austrian Alps. But just as he struggles to leave the ghosts of the past behind, a whole new set of ghosts are rising to take their place. A poignant and compelling debut novel, Marley’s Ghosts follows a man as he searches for a sense of peace, but finds only more dark secrets.

SARA STEWART is no stranger to adventure. In her memoir A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin America she recounts her memories salvaged from her explorations of Latin America during 1974/5, a turbulent, politically unstable period. This is a thrilling, engaging compendium of tales as much about remarkable people as they are about the diverse, fascinating places and charged political situations that characterised 1970s Latin America.

MARY GRIESE is an established artist. Her newly published novel After the Horses has been described as 'Cider with Rosie meets Cold Comfort Farm'. It's 1973 and hoping to reclaim the peace of her rural childhood, Margo moves with her husband to a remote corner of Gloucestershire. She is following her dream of working with horses, but finding her feet in this scattered community is harder than she thought. The horses are highly strung Arabs, the previous groom seems to haunt every shadow, and her neighbours have some very peculiar customs. Now something sinister may be roaming the village at night.

Life in this strange place is turning out to be very different from the dream..