Parade’s End Books

Kingston Writers Club
2023-11-20 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
They say we all have a book in us!
Have you been thinking about writing that first novel? Or maybe you’ve already started and don’t know where to go next.
Whether you are already writing or thinking about starting, getting together with like-minded people is a great way to share ideas, resources and to provide each other with moral support.
Kingston Writers Club is held on the 3rd Monday of each month. We will discuss writing, share tips and even have visits from publishers and authors. The club will be yours to make it what you want.
All welcome.
£5 (includes, tea, coffee or wine).
Register your interest below.

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An Evening with Erin Kelly
2023-11-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with Erin Kelly as she discusses her latest novel, The Skeleton Key.
Erin Kelly is a well respected author of several critically acclaimed thrillers, including The Poison Tree which was adapted into an ITV series. She was also chosen to write the novel version of the mega-hit TV series Broadchurch.
The Skeleton Key is a story of one book, two families and a lifetime of obsession, inspired by the author’s love for Masquerade.
Erin will host a Q&A session, followed by signing copies of books purchased on the evening.
Free to attend. book your place here

[SOLD OUT] Wine & Cheese Tasting
2023-12-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening of wine tasting presented by local wine merchant Andrew of Taylor’s Wines. There will be a range of 12 wines for you to try, all handpicked by Andrew to inspire your tipples over the festive season.
Drop in any time between 6 and 9pm for your tasting. Each wine will be paired with cheese from The French Comte (Ham Parade Market). Andrew will have special offers for anyone ordering wine from him on the evening.
We are also offering 10% discount on any books purchased on the evening.

Book Club Meeting 30
2023-12-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we will be reading Fight Night by Miriam Toews.
“You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.” Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she’s suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.
Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma’s methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on.
Time is running short. Grandma’s health is failing and the baby is on the way – can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
Everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers.

Festive Lock-in
2023-12-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for a festive lock-in, where you will be treated to mince pies and recommendations for all your Christmas present-buying. We are also offering our free gift-wrapping service for all books purchased that evening.
Our booksellers will be on-hand after hours to give you the best advice in the business, whether you’re buying for your children, your other half, friends, or that tricky uncle who only reads books about fishing. Whatever it is, we have got you covered!

Festive Lock-in
2023-12-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for a festive lock-in where you will be treated to mince pies and recommendations for all your Christmas present-buying. We will also be offering our free gift wrapping service.
Our booksellers will be on-hand after hours to give you the best advice in the business, whether you’re buying for your children, your other half, friends, or that tricky uncle who only reads books about fishing. Whatever it is, we have got you covered!

Book Club Meeting 31
2024-01-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we will be reading Antarctica by Claire Keegan.
A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister’s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In ‘Antarctica’, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.
Everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers.

Poetry, Jazz, Art and Storytelling with Well Books
2024-01-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
You can purchase your ticket in store or here

Book Club Meeting 32
2024-02-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we will be reading Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin.
An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through love, loss and unwavering hope.
Everyone is welcome to the book club and we encourage newcomers. Just drop us an email to join.

Dog Days!
2024-02-11 12:00 - 16:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We want to celebrate our doggie customers so pop in to see us with (or without) your pooch for our first Dog Day!
We will have Stephanie Howard who is a renowned pet sketch artist and she will be in the shop from 12.00-16.00 to create amazing sketches of your dog.
We will also have highly acclaimed dog trainer Aftab Ahmed with us from 14.00. Aftab has written a book on training called To Be Frank and you can pop in to ask him about any issues you have with your dog, plus learn more about his book.
All dogs who come to see us will get treats from The Four Legged Foodies.
The event is free but there is a £25 charge for dog sketch which you can order here. We will then contact you to arrange for you to submit a photo to use as the sketch.

Serkan Trio Jazz Evening
2024-02-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Some tunes you know and some improvisation you don’t!
Don’t miss this evening of chamber jazz with the Serkan Trio.
Serkan Cakit – keyboard, vocals
Andrew Blake – sax, flute, vocals
Alan Durant – double bass
This is a highly popular event so book your place here to avoid disappointment!

Book Club Meeting 33
2024-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff.
Join us for a darkly humorous feminist revenge thriller. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a rumour she hasn’t bothered trying to correct. Life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife… until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too.
Everyone is welcome to the book club and we encourage newcomers. Just drop us an email to join.

An Evening with Claire Martin
2024-03-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with Claire Martin as she discusses her book Heirs of Ambition – the making of the Boleyns.
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Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind England’s most obsessed-over queen, Anne Boleyn.
From the fields of Norfolk to the royal court, via city commerce, local government, liberal education and numerous wedding bells, the Boleyns emerge as just one of many newly prosperous and ambitious families seeking to make the best of a changing world. As they struggle upwards, England is visited by famine, plague, revolt and civil war – but also opportunity.
Struggling peasants in dirt-floored cottages scratch a living on tiny scraps of land. More than half are swept away by plague while revolt soaks the south-east in blood, but hope lies in the teeming, timber-framed streets of London amongst ambitious merchants who speculate and scheme. Meagre rations become venison pasties and straw-filled mattresses, featherbeds, but some things remain the same. Disease has no respect for gold and silver; war takes sons whose lives have barely begun. While the Boleyns’ new-found wealth delivered power and status, they still lived in a violent world and life could be precarious, even for a queen.
From steady climb to bone-breaking fall, the Boleyns’ story is medieval life at its messy, prejudiced and unstable best.

Floored Book Launch
2024-04-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for the book launch of “Floored” – the debut romcom from Chrissie Harrison. Browse the bookstore, mingle, and enjoy free fizz!
“In order to expose her sexist boss, sparky but socially anxious Hannah must hope her daring scheme to bug the office lift doesn’t backfire. However, when she accidentally gets talking to lovelorn accountant Drew, she becomes distracted with the impossible dream of romance.
If she can summon the courage to meet him in person, perhaps together they can catch the preying boss without being discovered… and without damaging their fledgling relationship.”
FLOORED is a charming romantic comedy guaranteed to give you a lift.
This wonderful, laugh-out-loud, will-they-won’t-they romcom is perfect for those who loved Beth O’Leary’s “The Flatshare”, Laura Jane Williams’ “Our Stop”, or Sally Thorne’s “The Hating Game”.
This book is the debut of Chrissie Harrison, the pen name of Chris Towndrow who has published a dozen novels over the last decade.
No need to book – just turn up!

Book Club 34
2024-04-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading In Memoriam by Alice Winn
In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always has been.
When Gaunt’s mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, he signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him into the horrors of trenches. Though Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, their friends are dying in front of them, and at any moment they could be next.
Everyone is welcome to the book club and we encourage newcomers. Contact us to join
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Live! Folk Music Trio - SOLD OUT
2024-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
***SOLD OUT***
Join us for an evening of live folk music with:
Dave Stenhouse – A true troubadour with his roots in the London 60s folk scene brings new and old classic to life
Rob Hughes – Immaculate finger-style guitarist plays and sings his original songs and unique arrangements of familiar gems.
Beth Jakob – Beth’s simple melodies and raw lyrics will take you on a story telling journey.
Book your place here

Book Club 35: The House of Doors
2024-05-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng.
It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert’s, comes to stay.
Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. As Willie prepares to leave and face his demons, Lesley confides secrets of her own, including how she came to know the charismatic Dr Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary fighting to overthrow the imperial dynasty of China. And more scandalous still, she reveals her connection to the case of an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts – a tragedy drawn from fact, and worthy of fiction.
Everyone is welcome to the book club and we encourage newcomers. Contact us to join

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An Evening with Tom Shakespeare
2024-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join BBC Radio 4 presenter, sociologist and comedian Tom Shakespeare for an evening celebrating the release of his fiction debut, The Ha-Ha. You’ll be able to hear more about Tom’s writing, ask all your burning questions, purchase books and get them signed.
This event is FREE to attend and you can book your spot here:
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Georgina Moore and Kirsty Capes In Conversation
2024-06-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening in conversation with two fantastic authors: Georgina Moore, author of The Garnett Girls, and Kirsty Capes, author of recently released Girls. Both explore sisters, dysfunctional families and absent mothers in their dazzling novels.
Book your free place here.

About The Garnett Girls:
Tangled relationships, family secrets and the unbreakable bond between sisters
Meet the Garnett Girls…
Three sisters living in the shadow of their parents’ glorious failed marriage.
Rachel, desperate to return to London, but tied to the beautiful crumbling house they grew up in on the Isle of Wight.
Imogen, with a devoted fiancé and a fledgling writing career, feeling a powerful connection to a beautiful stranger.
And wild, passionate Sasha, trapped between her sisters and her husband, hiding a secret that could shake their family to the core…

About Girls:

Everyone has heard of Girls.
But what happened to the women they became?
At the time of her death, the press wrote many things about Ingrid Olssen:
She was a brilliant artist. She was a terrible mother to her girls, Mattie and Nora. And that her legacy would live on forever.
Even so, it’s unlikely the world will ever see another Ingrid Olssen exhibition – her last request to her daughters was to throw her ashes in the canyon and her paintings in the sea.
But as Mattie and Nora reluctantly embark on an all-or-nothing trip to fulfil her wishes, they start to unpick the painful scars of their past.
And soon they begin to realise that the ties that bound them, might also break them…

Book Club 36: Cloudstreet
2024-06-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading Cloudstreet by Tim Winton.
Cloudstreet is Tim Winton’s great family drama, a twenty-year story of life and love, full of boisterous energy, joy and heartbreak. His visceral evocation of the Australian landscape is nowhere more extraordinary than in this classic.
Everyone is welcome to the book club and we encourage newcomers. Contact us to join.

Book Launch: The Perfect Guest
2024-06-22 17:30 - 19:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We’re excited to welcome local author Ruth Irons to celebrate the launch of her unputdownable thriller The Perfect Guest.
Free event – come along on the evening!

School of Life Conversation - Getting Over Your Parents
2024-07-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening of conversation presented by The School of Life. The topic will be Getting Over Your Parents – based on the book which is an insightful and illuminating guide to understanding the psychological legacy left to us by our parents.

Our parents are a huge deal: no matter our relationship to them, who we are today (what love stories we get into, our attitudes to work, our self-esteem) is crucially determined by our relationships with our origin families.

Following on from the bestselling How To Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents is a practical guide on how to navigate the complex legacies left to us by our parents. By exploring different types of parents, such as “The Preoccupied Parent”, “The Overprotective Parent”’ and “The Controlling Parent”, it gives us a vocabulary with which to understand some of the stranger and more difficult things that parents sometimes do to their children, as well as advice on how to move forward from our puzzles or confusions. The emphasis is never on blame, always on understanding.
Offering constructive solutions for dealing with the symptoms of a difficult childhood, this book helps us to explore the past so that we can avoid the mistakes our parents made, and secure for ourselves the more creative, calm and loving future we deserve.

The event is FREE and all are welcome. Tea and coffee will be available for purchase on the evening. Register your place HERE

An Evening with Mima Biddulph and Adam Collier-Woods
2024-07-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening of making something out of nothing and flying by the seat of your pants.
Mima Biddulph’s debut book, ‘ Playing it By Ear, Adam’s recycled build on a budget’.
Book for event here

Book Club 37: Forbidden Notebook
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Cespedes
Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse – she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant churn of the domestic routine and her fears that her husband will discover her new habit. With each entry Valeria plunges deeper into her interior life, uncovering profound dissatisfaction and restlessness. As she finds her own voice, the roles that have come to define her-as wife, as mother, as daughter-begin to break apart.
Forbidden Notebook is a rediscovered jewel of Italian literature, published here in a new translation by the celebrated Ann Goldstein and with a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri. A captivating feminist classic, it is an intimate, haunting story of domestic discontent in postwar Rome, and of one woman’s awakening to her true thoughts and desires.
All are welcome! Contact us if you’d like to come along.

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Art Classes with Lucy Smith - 1st August
2024-08-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Throughout August Lucy Smith will be hosting art classes for beginners or those wishing to improve their art skills. The classes are inspired by her book Botanical Sketchbooks: An Artist’s Guide to Plant Studies.
You can sign up for as many of the classes as you like. Each class is £30 per person and includes tea or coffee.
INTRODUCTION TO BOTANICAL ART
In these sessions, botanical artist Lucy T. Smith will introduce you to botanical art techniques and approaches by showing you how to observe and record plants using sketchbook studies.
Each 1.5 hour session can be taken as a stand-alone class, but they work even better if you take all four, with time to practice techniques in between!

SESSION 1 – DRAWING PLANTS IN PENCIL
Graphite pencil: How to make accurate pencil drawings of flowers, fruits and seeds using line to describe shapes, and tone to depict three-dimensional form.
Book your place here.

Art Classes with Lucy Smith - 8th August
2024-08-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Throughout August Lucy Smith will be hosting art classes for beginners or those wishing to improve their art skills. The classes are inspired by her book Botanical Sketchbooks: An Artist’s Guide to Plant Studies.
You can sign up for as many of the classes as you like. Each class is £30 per person and includes tea or coffee.
INTRODUCTION TO BOTANICAL ART
In these sessions, botanical artist Lucy T. Smith will introduce you to botanical art techniques and approaches by showing you how to observe and record plants using sketchbook studies.
Each 1.5 hour session can be taken as a stand-alone class, but they work even better if you take all four, with time to practice techniques in between!
SESSION 2 – WATERCOLOUR FOR BOTANICAL SUBJECTS
Watercolour: mixing watercolour to match botanical subjects and adding colour to pencil sketchbook drawings.
Book your place here

Art Classes with Lucy Smith - 15th August
2024-08-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Throughout August Lucy Smith will be hosting art classes for beginners or those wishing to improve their art skills. The classes are inspired by her book Botanical Sketchbooks: An Artist’s Guide to Plant Studies.
You can sign up for as many of the classes as you like. Each class is £30 per person and includes tea or coffee.
INTRODUCTION TO BOTANICAL ART
In these sessions, botanical artist Lucy T. Smith will introduce you to botanical art techniques and approaches by showing you how to observe and record plants using sketchbook studies.
Each 1.5 hour session can be taken as a stand-alone class, but they work even better if you take all four, with time to practice techniques in between!
SESSION 3 – BOTANICAL PEN AND INK
Pen and Ink: Discovering pen and ink techniques for drawing plants using line, how to add shading in ink using stipple and hatching.
Book your place here

Art Classes with Lucy Smith - 22nd August
2024-08-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Throughout August Lucy Smith will be hosting art classes for beginners or those wishing to improve their art skills. The classes are inspired by her book Botanical Sketchbooks: An Artist’s Guide to Plant Studies.
You can sign up for as many of the classes as you like. Each class is £30 per person and includes tea or coffee.
INTRODUCTION TO BOTANICAL ART
In these sessions, botanical artist Lucy T. Smith will introduce you to botanical art techniques and approaches by showing you how to observe and record plants using sketchbook studies.
Each 1.5 hour session can be taken as a stand-alone class, but they work even better if you take all four, with time to practice techniques in between!
SESSION 4 – FREEHAND SKETCHING
Pencil, pen & ink, watercolour: how to make loose sketches of plants using mixed media.
Book your place here

Frog in a Fog Reading and Activities
2024-09-08 10:30 - 12:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join Marielle Bayliss for this fun activity for kids aged 2 to 6.
There will be a reading of Frog in a Fog followed by a frog warm up, fun facts and activities.
Book your FREE place here.

Book Club 39: In the Blink of an Eye
2024-09-11 19:00 - 20:00
This month we are reading In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan
DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, Kat’s instincts come up against Lock’s logic. But when the two missing person’s cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal.
All are welcome! Contact us if you’d like to come along.

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