'Metabolic Shift' book launch
2025-11-16 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
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Parade's End 5th Birthday Celebration!
2025-11-20 10:00 - 19:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
It seems like only yesterday we were opening… but on 20th November, our beloved bookshop turns 5!
To mark the occasion, and to thank you all for your support over the years, we’re having a little celebratory day. Pop by that day to get 10% off books instore, and be treated to a free tea or soft drink 🎉

An Evening with Genevieve Marenghi, Author of 'No Oil Painting'
2025-11-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We are delighted to announce an evening with local author Genevieve Marenghi, reading from and discussing her novel No Oil Painting – a reverse art-heist set at Ham House. The book was listed for the inaugural Women’s Prize Trust and Curtis Brown’s Discoveries, and we can’t wait to hear more about it!
Tickets are FREE – get yours here.
There will also be a chance to get a signed copy of the book, and alcoholic and soft drinks will be available to purchase on the night.

An Evening with Julia Shaw, Author of Green Crime
2025-11-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for a scintillating evening with Dr Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist at University College London, to discuss her new book Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them. Hear more about the worst environmental crimes of our time, and the heroes bringing these criminals to justice — and for one night only, get a signed copy of the book with our special 10% discount!
Tickets are FREE – get yours here now.
Alcoholic and soft drinks will also be available to purchase on the night.

Festive Lates
2025-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for festive lates at Parade’s End! Drop by anytime between 6-8pm, and you will be treated to bubbly, mince pies, and recommendations for all your Christmas present-buying.
✨ During these evenings, we are offering our free gift-wrapping service ✨

Book Club 54: Night Swimmers
2025-12-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We’ll be reading Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire for our last book club of 2025!
A coastal village in Northern Ireland, on the eve of lockdown: when Grace grudgingly saves Evan from drowning, they are startled into a reckoning with their past and a reconnection with the outside world.
Everyone welcome to join! Email us to be added to the mailing list, then just get your copy of the book from the bookshop, and come along.
Book club is £3, and there will be tea and festive snacks!

Wine Tasting Evening
2025-12-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for a tasting of delicious and uncommon wines in the bookshop, guided by local wine merchant Taylor’s.
Cost is just £15 pp and includes four sample wines and cheese nibbles. Get your ticket here online or instore. We would recommend booking early, as tickets run out fast!

Festive Lates
2025-12-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for festive lates at Parade’s End! Drop by anytime between 6-8pm, and you will be treated to bubbly, mince pies, and recommendations for all your Christmas present-buying.
During these evenings, we are offering our free gift-wrapping service

Book Club 55: I Who Have Never Known Men
2026-01-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
A haunting evocation of a post-apocalyptic world where a group of women are kept in a cage with no recollection of how they got there, this rediscovered sci-fi novel is a portrait of female friendship, intimacy and hope in desperate circumstances.
Everyone welcome to join! Email us to be added to the mailing list, then just get your copy of the book from the bookshop, and come along.

'Maremma Mia' author event with Nicholas Hopton
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an author event with Nicholas Hopton, to celebrate his new book ‘Maremma Mia’. Leave the chills of English January for an evening, and treat yourself instead to a discussion of the delights and demands of life in the beautiful Tuscan countryside. There will also be a Q&A and a chance to get a signed copy of the book.
Tickets are £5 – get yours here. Ticket price is redeemable against purchase of the book on the night.
About the book:
Part memoir, part history, Maremma Mia is a spellbinding love letter to Italy. At the centre of this book is the chronicle of the Hopton family’s adventure as they transform an old farmhouse, “I Cipressi”, in the rural Maremma region of Tuscany into their home. The narrative unfolds across the changing seasons, capturing the unique beauty and unpredictability of their new lives in Tuscany. Through these experiences, Hopton reveals both the joys and challenges of rural life, painting a detailed picture of the local customs and traditions.
About the author:
Nicholas Hopton studied Italian at Cambridge University. His dissertation Sicilianità – on Twentieth Century Sicilian literature – won the Peskett Modern Languages prize. He also studied at the British Institute of Florence and La Sapienza University in Rome. His first published novel was In Pieces, which The New York Post described as ‘A wry, intelligent story of London life in the nineties’. He served as a diplomat for 35 years, including at the British Embassy in Italy and as UK Ambassador to Libya, Iran, Qatar and Yemen. He now lives in Twickenham and spends as much time as possible with his wife and five children at their house in Tuscany.

An evening with Anthony Gardner, author of 'All God's Creatures'
2026-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with Anthony Gardner, who will talk about his new book ‘All God’s Creatures’. Perfect for fans of Evelyn Waugh and Tom Sharpe, the book is a gentle, satirical novel about the madness of cancel culture. There will also be a Q&A and a chance to get a signed copy of the book.
Tickets are £5 – get yours here. Ticket price is redeemable against purchase of the book on the night.
About the book:
When mild-mannered editor Ben Fairweather loses his job after being branded a “petphobic bigot” by a fanatical religious movement that believes animals are closer to God than humans, he stumbles into a new life as a nightclub pianist. But soon he is drawn into a world of spies, art forgery, sinister oligarchs, AI and murder.
All God’s Creatures is Anthony Gardner’s ingenious caper: part madcap farce, part sharp-eyed satire in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Tom Sharpe, and an unsettling mirror of our own age of chaos.
About the author:
Author, journalist, and former editor of the Royal Society of Literature Review, Anthony Gardner has written for The Sunday Times Magazine, Irish Times, and The Economist. He is the author of two previous novels (The Rivers of Heaven, Fox) and two collections of poetry, one of which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.

Book Club 56: The Land in Winter
2026-02-04 19:00 - 20:00
This month we’re reading The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller.
As one of the coldest winters on record grips England in a never-ending frost and as the country is enveloped in a thick, soft, unmoving layer of snow, two couples find themselves cut off from the rest of the world…
Everyone welcome to join! Email us to be added to the mailing list, then just get your copy of the book from the bookshop, and come along.

Digital Detox Club
2026-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Love to relax & connect in person?
Then join us at The Digital Detox Club at Parade’s End Bookshop: the club will run every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month – 7-9pm
What to expect? No phones. No screens. Just a peaceful, relaxed, social way to be together, play together and do whatever you most love to do.
What we provide? Board games, cards, jigsaws, a free drink & nibbles.
What to bring? Just yourself, and maybe a craft or activity of your choice.
£12 a time or £30 for 3 nights. Either book online here, instore or pay on the night!

[SOLD OUT] Jazz Night
2026-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
The first Parade’s End Jazz Night of 2026! Join us as Noa and her band celebrate love, exploring jazz classics during an evening of intimate music.
Get your ticket here or instore now – we recommend booking ahead as jazz events tend to sell out!

Games Night
2026-02-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Love to relax & connect in person?
Then join us for Games Night (aka Digital Detox Club) at Parade’s End Bookshop: the club will run every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month – 7-9pm
What to expect? No phones. No screens. Just a peaceful, relaxed, social evening.
What we provide? Board games, cards, jigsaws, a free drink & nibbles.
What to bring? Just yourself, and maybe a craft or activity of your choice – be that knitting, a board game, or a musical instrument!
£12 a time or £30 for 3 nights. Either book online here, instore or pay on the night!

Onjali Rauf Book Signing
2026-02-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for a book signing with fantastic children’s author Onjali Rauf! We are delighted to welcome Onjali, who is currently touring with the play of her award-winning book ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ (on at Kingston’s Rose Theatre 2-22 February). A range of her books will be available to purchase on the day.

Book Club 57: Old Filth
2026-03-05 19:00 - 20:00
This month we’re reading Old Filth by Jane Gardam.
This novel follows judge Sir Edward Feathers as he reckons with his own history and that of the 20th century: from his childhood in Malaya and early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong), all the way to his return to England towards the end of the millennium.
Just email us to be added to the mailing list, then just get your copy of the book from the bookshop, and come along!

Anuradha Roy - Called by the Hills
2026-03-13 19:00 - 20:30
Join us for an evening with Anuradha Roy, to hear her speak about her new book, Called By the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya: the captivating story of building a home and a garden on the edge of the Himalayan wilds. Written with unsentimental clarity, humour and poignancy, Called By the Hills is an account of profound transformations.
When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Leaving behind the freneticism of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains. Before long, however, she is won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of her sometimes recalcitrant neighbours, and adopted by four mountain dogs and counting.
Over twenty-five years, as Roy becomes accustomed to living among forests where leopards roam freely, she will come to encounter nature at its most fierce, beautiful and vulnerable – and bear witness to the destructive impact of global warming on the alpine ecosystem.
Anuradha Roy, is the author of five novels, including Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
