The Story of Art Without Men with Katy Hessel (Virtual Event)
2022-09-13 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Online
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?
On Tuesday, September 13 @ 7pm join us for an online event with art historian, curator and author Katy Hessel, to discuss her latest book, The Story of Art Without Men.
Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of post-War artists in Latin America and the women artists defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the story of art for our times – one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists.
Event free to anyone who pre-orders or buys a copy of the book from us (click here) or instore! A link to the event will be sent on the day.

The Night Ship with author Jess Kidd
2022-09-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We are incredibly excited to welcome Jess Kidd to Parade’s End Books, to talk about her brilliant new novel, The Night Ship and to sign copies. Jess is a Costa Award winning author whose previous books include Things in Jars. Now she returns with The Night Ship, a novel that weaves the infamous shipwreck of the Batavia with the tale of one young boy more than three hundred years later – it’s an imaginative historical epic of shipwreck, mutiny, fate and friendship. Jess will be talking about this truly stunning novel and we hope you can join us for what will be a special event.
You can book your free tickets by ordering in the store, ringing us on 020 85495425 or emailing orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk. Tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis so book now to secure your place. See you there!

Book club meeting 17
2022-10-05 19:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading seasonal classic The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff.
The book’s premise is brilliantly simple and filled with charming detail. It follows Mr. Stevens, an office clerk, his sweet but nervous wife Flossie, and their three children—Dick, who works for an auctioneer; Mary, a dressmaker’s assistant; and schoolboy Ernie—as they ready themselves for their summer holiday and take the train from London to the coast, where romance, adventure and freedom from humdrum work await them.
We’ll meet for the book club in the shop on Wednesday 5 October @ 7pm – everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers, just drop us an email at orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk to come along!

Book Launch Event with Local Author Emma Burstall
2022-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us in the bookshop on Friday 28th October, 7-9pm, for an enchanting evening with local bestselling fiction author Emma Burstall to celebrate the launch of her latest book, The House on Rockaway Beach.
A tale of family secrets, sibling rivalry and summer romance. When their grandmother leaves them her house in her will, sisters Sophie and Celia return to Rockaway, but they cannot agree on anything. It seems they will never see eye to eye, until Sophie makes a chance discovery which will make her question everything…
Emma is a top-10 bestselling author whose Tremarnock series, set in Cornwall, has been praised for its storytelling and characterisation. The House on Rockaway Beach is perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Lucinda Riley and Victoria Hislop.
As we celebrate this new release, there will be the opportunity for a Q&A where you can ask all of your burning questions. Discussions will be followed by a chance for you to buy the books and get them signed while enjoying drinks and canapés.
Registration Required
Book your free tickets in advance by ordering in the store, ringing us on 020 85495425 or emailing orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk. Tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis. We look forward to seeing you there!

Chekhov and Tolstoy, and Why We Need to Keep Reading Russian Literature
2022-11-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an engaging evening talk with incredible local author Rosamund Bartlett, on Saturday 5 November, 7-9pm.
Tolstoy is one of the world’s greatest novelists, but during his lifetime he was better known for his promotion of non-violence, and for his campaign against the Russian government and the Orthodox Church. Chekhov, father of the modern short story, was deeply influenced by Tolstoy’s moral philosophy and social activism. This talk will discuss their unusual friendship and the continuing importance of their humanitarian mission.
Rosamund Bartlett is a writer and translator whose books include Tolstoy: A Russian Life, longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and Chekhov: Scenes from A Life. She is the translator of the Chekhov anthology About Love and Other Stories, shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Prize, and Chekhov: A Life in Letters. Her new edition of Anna Karenina was published in 2014. She grew up in Ham.
You can book your free tickets by ordering in the store, ringing us on 020 85495425 or emailing orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk. Tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, so book now to secure your place.

Book Signing with Estelle Day
2022-11-12 11:30 - 12:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us on Saturday 12th November at 11.30am for a signing with acclaimed artist and author Estelle Day, to celebrate the release of her book Easy Oil Painting!
In her unique introduction to oil painting, Estelle demonstrates everything you need to embark on your oil painting journey, and the book includes illustrations and outlines for you to trace so you can get started right away. We can’t wait!

Jazz Night at Parade's End Books
2022-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We’re so excited to announce that Noa and her band are back for another jazz night! Join us on Saturday 19 November for a themed evening of live music – Noa and her jazz band perform jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, beautiful ballads and cheeky 1950s numbers, as well as latin bossa nova grooves, where Noa draws inspiration from her Spanish roots. You can check out noasingsjazz.com to learn more about Noa and to have a listen to this wonderful performer.
Featuring a local jazz quartet:
Noa Alvarez – vocals
Meredith White – keys
Dave Jones – double bass
Tormod Sund – trumpet
Tickets – SOLD OUT
Tickets can be bought inside, or online. You can also order by emailing orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk. The last jazz evening sold out quickly so we’d advise booking ahead to avoid disappointment!

Online Event: An Evening with Maggie O'Farrell
2022-12-01 18:30 - 19:30 | Online
We’re pleased to announce a special live event with the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Maggie O’Farrell, in partnership with Bookshop.org. Maggie will discuss her latest novel, The Marriage Portrait. We will be selling copies of the book, which will act as a ticket to join the hybrid event.
The event will take place on Thursday 1 December at 6.30pm, streaming live from the beautiful Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland, chaired by New Writing North’s Claire Malcolm. Maggie will be discussing the inspiration behind her beautiful novel, what she discovered about the real Lucrezia de’ Medici during her research and shedding new light on a familiar story, as she did with her previous book Hamnet.
If you buy a copy of The Marriage Portrait you will receive an event link emailed to you on the day.

Book Signing with Richard E. Grant
2022-12-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We are so excited to announce a special book signing with actor and author Richard E. Grant, to celebrate the release of his new memoir A Pocketful of Happiness. Don’t miss this chance to come along and get your copy of this brilliant, funny and moving biography signed by a local legend.

Book club meeting 19
2022-12-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading Matrix by Lauren Groff.
The book follows Marie de France, a woman from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, as she is sent to Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. Marie begins her work establishing a female utopia in this ‘modern masterpiece’ with a medieval setting.
We’ll meet for the book club in the shop on Wednesday 7 December @ 7pm – everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers, just drop us an email at orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk to come along!

Festive Late Evening
2022-12-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us on the next two Thursday evenings for special late openings to celebrate the season and say a massive thank you to you all for your support year round!
We will be open late, 6-8pm, Thursday 15th and 22nd December ✨
Just come on down anytime between 6pm and 8pm and let us help you find the perfect read for everyone on your list with free fizz, festive nibbles and complimentary gift wrapping!

Book club meeting 20
2023-01-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.
The book follows a group of friends and friends-of-friends as they gather in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most.
We’ll meet for the book club in the shop on Wednesday 18 January @ 7pm – everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers, just drop us an email at orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk to come along!

Secret Spitfires: An Evening with Author Gavin Clarke
2023-01-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an engaging evening with author Gavin Clarke on Saturday 28 January, 7.30-9pm. Gavin will be discussing his book Secret Spitfires – the remarkable true story of the hidden army of women who assembled in WW2 to build spitfires in secret. See you there!
September 1940: In the midst of the Second World War, The Luftwaffe unleashed a series of devastating raids on Southampton, all but destroying its Spitfire factories.
But production didn’t stop. Instead, manufacturing of this iconic fighter moved underground, to secret locations staffed by women, children and non-combatant men. With little engineering experience between them, they built a fleet of one of the greatest war planes that has ever existed.
This is their story.
You can book your free tickets by ordering in the store, ringing us on 020 85495425 or emailing orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk. Tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, so book now to secure your place.

Jazz Night
2023-02-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Parade’s End live music is back! Join us on Friday 10th February, 7.30pm, for an evening of chamber jazz with the Serkan Trio. The group will play a mixture of instantly recognised classics interspersed with less familiar compositions and improvisation. There will be drinks and non-alcoholic refreshments on sale.
Book your free ticket now instore, by emailing us at orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk or ringing us on 020 8549 5425. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Book club meeting 21
2023-02-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa.
The book follows a Professor with a peculiar problem – ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory – and a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles – based on her shoe size or her birthday – and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son.
We’ll meet for the book club in the shop on Wednesday 22nd February @ 7pm – everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers, just drop us an email at orders@paradesendbooks.co.uk to come along!

Frog's Bog Author Read and Crafts
2023-03-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
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Join us for a fun reading of children’s picture book Frog’s Bog.
Author Marielle Bayliss will be in the store from 11.00 on March 12th and the reading will be followed by some fun froggie crafts.
Children of all ages (and adults who are young at heart) are welcome to join us. The event is free, just register above if you’d like to come along.

Lore Segal in Conversation
2023-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Online
We are excited to announce a virtual event with Pulitzer nominated author, Lore Segal on
14 March at 7pm. Segal will be discussing her new book of short stories, Ladies’ Lunch.
Publication date is 9 March. Anyone pre-ordering or buying a copy of Ladies’ Lunch, will receive a link to watch on the
day of the event, 14 March.
About Lore Segal
Lore Segal was born in Vienna in 1928, and is a renowned American author. She won an
American Academy Award (for Her First American), the O. Henry Award and was nominated
for a Pulitzer (for Shakespeare’s Kitchen). She was first published in The New Yorker in
1958 and remains a regular contributor in her nineties.
Lore Segal’s novel Other People’s Houses (1964), based on her experience in Britain as a
kindertransport refugee, was republished by Sort of Books in 2018.

Book Club Meeting 22
2023-03-22 19:00 - 20:00
This month we are reading Leviathan by Rosie Andrews.
This debut novel is set in Norfolk in 1643 and is a sinister, twisting tale with a harrowing yet satisfying conclusion.
The book is now available to buy in store and we welcome current members and new to join us at the store on March 22nd.
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Author Event with Tanya van Dalen
2023-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with author Tanya van Dalen as she talks about her book Sensory Parenting for Sensory Children
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Out of the Blue Reading with Author Robert Tregoning
2023-04-05 11:00 - 11:45 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for a fun reading event with Robert Tregoning, author of Out of the Blue!
A stunning celebration of being yourself and living in ALL the colours of the rainbow, this is a book this is a book about finding the bravery to be yourself. As an LGBTQ+ writer, Robert hopes to help children and adults alike to accept and celebrate all that makes us uniquely ourselves. The stories Robert writes are stories he wishes he could have read as a child, full of validation and kindness to those who need it.
The event is most suitable for children aged 5-8 and their adults, just sign up above or instore to come along!
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An Evening with Priscilla Morris
2023-04-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with Priscilla Morris as discusses her Women’s Prize longlisted debut novel Black Butterflies.
Priscilla Morris is a debut author from London who lives mostly in Ireland and sometimes in Spain. She read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and spent her younger years teaching English in England, Spain and Brazil. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and teaches creative writing at University College Dublin. Her debut novel Black Butterflies, set during the siege of Sarajevo, with themes of disintegration, resilience and art as resistance to war, has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 and for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2023. It was Indie Fiction Book of the Month in May 2022. You can find out more about Priscilla and Black Butterflies at www.priscillamorris.org and follow her on @priscillamorriswriter.
The discussion will be followed by Q & A session and book signing.
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Portrait of Priscilla Morris, writer, by Conor Horgan. September 2021

Book Club Meeting 23
2023-04-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading French Braid by Anne Tyler.
When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.
All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond.
But it turns out family life is impossible to escape – particularly when it’s in your past. For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. It’s the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations.
Everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers. Just drop us an email to join.

Get Up and Glow with TEMPLE SPA
2023-05-11 09:00 - 09:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Start your day this Thursday with a 30 minute complimentary facial courtesy of Temple Spa consultant Catherine.
Join us at the shop where you will be guided through a luxury facial using award-winning Temple Spa products.
Spaces are limited so sign up below to reserve your spot.

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[SOLD OUT] Poems, Tales & Magical Lands Jazz Evening
2023-05-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an unmissable, intimate, evocative evening of songs inspired by stories, characters and places, as well as settings of sonnets and other poems, including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Masefield…
Acclaimed British jazz singer Nette Robinson will be accompanied by saxophonist Tony Woods and pianist Meredith White for a poetic and literary musical feast!
Nette Robinson (voice)
Tony Woods (saxophones/alto clarinet/flute)
Meredith White (piano)
This event is now sold out. Keep a look out on our page or join our mailing list to get the latest news about new events!

Book Club Meeting 24
2023-05-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading The Romantic by William Boyd
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.
One man, many lives.
Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as part of the East Indian Army. He enters the world of the Romantic Poets in Pisa. In Ravenna he meets a woman who will live in his heart for the rest of his days. As he travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, a father, a lover, he experiences all the vicissitudes of life and, through the accelerating turbulence of the nineteenth century, he discovers who he truly is. This is the romance of life itself, and the beating heart of The Romantic.
From one of Britain’s best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set across the nineteenth century.
Everyone is welcome and we encourage newcomers. Just drop us an email to join.

Flourish Launch Event
2023-05-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join author Kate Greenstock for the launch of Flourish – a practical and emotional guidebook to thriving in midwifery.

Guests will be welcome to chat to Kate about Flourish and purchase the book for themselves or to donate to a local midwife at Kingston Hospital. Guests will receive a complimentary welcome glass of Prosecco. Kate will be reading from the book at approx 7.15pm.
This is a free event but registration is required.
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Flourish is the only book addressing the stark psychological impact of midwifery work while giving midwives the tools to choose a brighter future. Flourish aims to support you as a midwife to do two things: to name what’s going on around you and within you, then to find and claim your distinctive place in the midwifery world.

You might be a newly qualified or early career midwife facing the challenges of finding your voice as well as your feet. Maybe you’re an established midwife but feel as though you have lost your way – and with it the energy to reshape either yourself or the environment you work in. Perhaps you’re a team leader seeking to find the vocabulary to connect with your team, acknowledge what they might be feeling and reach out for resources and tools to support them to thrive, reflect and grow.
As a guidebook, Flourish is a tour of discovery that reveals how ‘standard’ maternity environments and practices might be impacting you personally, and then invites you to reconnect with the core of your personality and purpose. You’ll recognise more clearly the realities of trauma exposure, burnout, compassion fatigue and moral injury, and explore what’s really needed for psychological safety. You’ll choose from an array of exercises to practice living well in the day to day, and you’ll find a way back ‘home’, to a place where your sense of motivation for being a midwife is rekindled – a place where you can reconnect to your values, strengths and your unique voice. Once there, you will be able to make real, rich choices about your life and your career.
Kate Greenstock is a distinctive combination of practising midwife and coach, bringing the flavours of both: reality and possibility; rawness and hope.

Donate a copy of Flourish to a local midwife.

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An evening with Ben Aaronovitch
2023-06-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Highly acclaimed author and screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch will be joining us for the launch of his brand new Rivers of London novella, Winter’s Gifts.
There will be a Q & A session followed by the opportunity to purchase signed copies of Winter’s Gifts.
This event will be extremely popular so registration is required if you wish to attend.

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Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Marlon James
2023-06-12 11:00 - 2023-06-30 20:00 | Online
We are excited to announce a special online event with Shehan Karunatilaka, discussing his 2022 Booker Prize Winning novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida with the 2015 Booker Prize Winning author, Marlon James.
About the book
A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida follows the adventure of the eponymous war photographer, gambler and closet gay, who has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. Maali has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka. The Booker judges said the book “fizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars.”
Watch the discussion here.

Pamper Evening with Temple Spa
2023-06-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Treat yourself after a hard days work!
As part of our series of events during Independent Bookshop Week, we are hosting a pamper event with Temple Spa.
Come along for free to enjoy a mini-facial with Prosecco and chocolates. Temple Spa consultant Catherine will talk you through a self-administered facial with these award winning spa products (only available to buy in Harrods).
Spaces are limited so please reserve yours below.

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