Discover local history! Support a local author! Patronise a local business!   Local author Gordon Elsden has teamed up with us to throw a public launch event for the release of Elsden's latest local history book: People of the Latchmere. On Saturday, July 3rd, from 10am - 4pm not only will the riveting read go on sale exclusively at Parade's …

Join us for an event with Brit Bennett, author of ‘The Vanishing Half’ We invite you to take part in an online event with bestselling author Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half. ‘The Vanishing Half’ weaves together multiple strands and generations of the Vignes family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s …

Join us for an evening at the store with three of our favourite local fiction authors: Louise Fein, author of People like us and the upcoming The Hidden Child Molly Gartland, author of The Girl from the Hermitage Andy Howden, author of Melting in the middle After a discussion about their experiences brainstorming, researching and …

For this month's book club we will be reading The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai. The Mountains Sing is an intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive. One family, two generations of women and a war that will change their lives forever. Ha Noi, 1972. Huong …

Join us for our first LIVE music event, a free evening gig with satiric singer-songwriter Chas Warlow. The gig will start at 7 and will go on until 9 pm - there will be a break where you can buy books, relax, and soak up the Friday night atmosphere. About Chas: Chas has produced 3 …

For this month’s book club we will be reading Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten. Tsarina is an epic, rags to riches tale inspired by the story of Catherine I, who was the second wife of Peter the Great and Empress of Russia. Spring 1699: illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in …

Join us for an exclusive online event with Yotam Ottolenghi, world-renowned chef and food writer, and Noor Murad, to discuss their latest book Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love. Yotam and Noor will be taking the audience through the ingredients and elements behind Shelf Love, sharing the secrets of the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen and discussing how …

Join us in the bookshop for an enchanting evening with local bestselling fiction author Ellen Alpsten, author of Tsarina and The Tsarina's Daughter. Oozing with elegance and atmosphere, Alpsten’s alluring debut novel Tsarina reimagines the rags-to-riches journey of Catherine I of Russia, from lowly birth and work in servitude to becoming the second wife of Peter …

Join us for an online evening featuring novelist (and bookshop owner!) Ann Patchett in conversation with author Daisy Buchanan. This event is to coincide with the publication of These Precious Days, an irresistible collection of essays from Patchett, the internationally bestselling, Women's Prize-winning author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth. Patchett will discuss her new essay …

This month we're reading a novella for our festive December book club: Love by Hanne Ørstavik. Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It’s the day before Jon’s birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the …