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Art Classes with Lucy Smith - 8th August
2024-08-08 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | 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.
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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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A Memoir and Manifesto about Autism
2024-09-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with Virginia Bovell as she discusses her memoir Danny’s People.
Virginia’s son Danny has a way of lighting up a room. He’s warm, personable and has an infectious laugh. He forms lasting relationships and has known his best friend since they were little. He is also nonverbal and autistic, and requires round-the-clock care and a liquid diet. And for this reason, there are many people who would rather not encounter Danny.
Fighting against a view that autism is something which needs to be ‘cured’, Virginia Bovell testifies to the battles to obtain support, the dismissive attitude of some professionals, and chronic underfunding faced by families at every turn. Passionate and unapologetic, Danny’s People draws on Virginia’s experience as both a mother and activist to offer a compelling argument for change.
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£5 ticket cost can be used against purchase of this or any other book on the night

Food for Menopause with Dr. Linia Patel
2024-09-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with Dr.Linia Patel as we discuss the impact of nutrition and diet on women going through menopause and perimenopause
Get your ticket here
£5 ticket price can be used against purchase of this or any other book on the night.

Food for Menopause by Dr Linia Patel is packed with 80 super tasty, appealing recipes – perfect for busy lives.
You might already know a bit about menopause symptoms or you might believe it’s something to think about some time in the future. But studies show that there’s lots you can do from your thirties to make your menopausal years easier.
Dr Linia Patel’s friendly, authoritative cookbook explains how to make your menopause work for you by setting out the impact of nutrition on the body. It’s about mastering your mid-life body by knowing exactly what to put on your plate. For example, why do you get brain fog, hot flushes or mood swings, which nutrients should you be getting more of to combat these, and what recipes can you make to pack in more of those nutrients? There’s so much you can factor into your diet to see you through perimenopause, menopause and beyond and crucially to enable you to THRIVE, not just survive.
Part 1: Understanding your body and your symptoms
Part 2: Eating for success
Part 3: Living for success
Part 4: Recipes for success – breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, weekend meals, sides and extras, sweet treats and drinks

Gyles Brandreth Book Signing
2024-09-28 14:00 - 17:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Come along to Parade’s End Books on Saturday September 28th for your chance to meet one of the UK’s most loves national treasures and raconteur Gyles Brandreth.
Gyles will be signing copies of his new book Prose & Cons from 2pm and we are sure he will have some great anecdotes for you!
You can pre-order your copy here and collect for signing on the day.

Book Club 40: North Woods
2024-10-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading North Woods by Daniel Mason
Over four centuries, Mason charts the story of a single house deep in the woods of New England: home to runaways and visionaries, inseparable twins, a lovelorn painter, a desperate mother and a ruthless conman…
All are welcome! Contact us if you’d like to come along.

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[SOLD OUT] Jazz Evening
2024-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
[THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT]
Live music @ Parade’s End is back! Join us for an unmissable evening with Green St. Jazz with Rebecca T. Sit back, relax, and let the music carry you away…
Tickets are £15.
Alcoholic and soft drinks will be available to purchase throughout the evening.

Book Launch: The Mischief Makers
2024-10-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with Elizabeth Gifford to hear about her new book The Mischief Makers – an enthralling and brilliantly conceived historical novel exploring the troubled inner world of Daphne Du Maurier.
About THE MISCHIEF MAKERS:
She wrote her stories in his shadow. Now Daphne’s past is catching up with her…
In a beautiful house in the wilds of Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Tangled in a self-destructive love affair that threatens to unravel her marriage, she is also distracted by worry for the family friend whose shadow looms over her childhood: J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.
Daphne tries to escape into writing her new book, but the line between fiction and reality blurs dangerously when her own characters start manifesting before her eyes – in particular a woman called Rebecca who looks suspiciously like her husband’s alluring ex-girlfriend.
Daphne must confront the dark truth that lurks beneath the fantasy of Peter Pan and the secret life that has plagued her since she found fame. Unless she can solve these mysteries and reckon with who she truly is as an artist, her next great work may be lost to history…
Book your FREE ticket to the event here.

Book Club 41: After the Funeral
2024-11-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
In these twelve short stories, Hadley plumbs the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships.
All are welcome! Contact us if you’d like to come along.

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Beaujolais Nouveau Wine Tasting Evening
2024-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for a tasting of delicious Beaujolais Nouveau wines. Cost is just £20pp and includes five sample wines and cheese nibbles. Get your ticket here.
About the wines:
Beaujolais Nouveau owes its easy drink-ability to a wine-making process called carbonic maceration, also called whole berry fermentation. This technique preserves the fresh, fruity quality of the wine, without extracting bitter tannins from the grape skins.

Book club 42: Golden Age
2024-12-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom

Festive Late
2024-12-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-12-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us for our festive late night shopping evenings, where you will be treated to bubbly, nibbles 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 43: The Empusium
2025-01-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom

Book Club 44: My Friends
2025-02-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we are reading My Friends by Hisham Matar.
This novel follows the friendship of Khaled, Mustafa and Hosam, bound together by their shared history, torn between the lives they have created in exile and the lives they have left behind in Libya.
All are welcome! Contact us if you’d like to come along.

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[SOLD OUT] Jazz Evening
2025-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Our first jazz evening of 2025, with the Alice Black Jazz Duo!
Join us for an evening with Alice Black, a jazz, swing and soul singer based in Surrey. Her repertoire includes songs famously performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan, Dusty Springfield, Nat King Cole, Diana Krall and many more. She will be accompanied by her husband and talented pianist, David Black.
Get your ticket here. Jazz evenings are very popular, so book early to avoid disappointment!
A range of alcoholic and soft drinks will also be available to purchase during the evening.

Colours of Siena Author Event with Judith May Evans
2025-03-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join us to welcome brilliant author Judith May Evans, and be gloriously inspired by the art and life of medieval Tuscany.
Get your ticket here. Ticket price is redeemable against purchase of the book on the night.
ABOUT COLOURS OF SIENA:
A medieval feud – an arrogant artist – a woman’s passion. This compelling new novel follows Clara, forced from her home in Tuscany’s art capital, Siena, and her determination to return there to paint.
When the most expensive painting in Christendom is paraded through the streets of Siena, Clara, young servant to the city’s most powerful family, is inspired. Ambrogio, a young painter, spots her genius for colour, and ignites her passion to become an artist. But when her father is murdered, she’s banished to the country. Can Clara persuade Ambrogio to rescue her? Will family and the Black Death stop Clara realising her dreams?

Storytime!
2025-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join Courtney as she reads classic children’s storybooks! This event is perfect for inspiring little ones…
Cost is £2, redeemable against the purchase of any book. You can grab a ticket here or instore.

Book Club 45: Standard Deviation
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny.
A witty, compelling and moving look into modern marriage. When Graham’s good-natured second wife Audra decides to make friends with Elsbeth – Graham’s first wife and Audra’s polar opposite – Graham starts to wonder: how can anyone love two such different women? And did he make the right choice?
All are welcome! Contact us if you’d like to come along.

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An evening with author Jess Kidd
2025-03-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
We’re so pleased to welcome back fantastic author Jess Kidd, for an evening to celebrate her latest book release! Jess will talk about her new mystery novel, Murder at Gull’s Nest, followed by a Q&A. This event is simply a must for cosy crime fans – if you enjoy an Agatha Christie or Richard Osman, you’ll love this.
Get your ticket here – the price of the ticket is redeemable against purchase of the book on the night.
ABOUT MURDER AT GULL’S NEST:
The first in a sparkling new 1950s seaside mystery series, featuring sharp-eyed former nun Nora Breen.
In a house like Gulls Nest, curiosity might prove fatal . . .
After thirty years in a convent, Nora Breen has thrown off her habit and set her sights on the seaside town of Gore-on-Sea. Her fellow sister Frieda has gone missing and it’s up to Nora to find her.
Nora’s only clue is that Frieda was last seen at Gulls Nest boarding House. So she travels down, takes a room and settles in to watch and listen. Over dubious – and sometimes downright inedible – dinners, Nora gathers evidence about the other lodgers and what they knew about Frieda.
At long last, Nora has found the perfect outlet for her powers of observation and, well, nosiness. When one of the lodgers is found dead, Nora decides she must find the murderer. Not least because she suspects the victim knew Frieda. Could solving this mystery help her to understand what has happened to her friend?

Live Music: Three for the Price of One
2025-03-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Three for the Price of One! Join singer-songwriters Chas Warlow, Surya Cooper and Keith Buckman for a fantastic evening of original music.
Tickets are £10 – get yours here! Live music events often sell out fast, so we’d recommend booking now to avoid disappointment.
There will also be alcoholic and soft drinks available to purchase on the night.
About the musicians:
Surya Cooper:
Surya has lived in the Richmond Borough for most of her life, and has been teaching music for many years. She has taught children, young people and adults, many of whom have additional needs.
She is a singer, song-writer, guitarist and teaches guitar, ukulele, singing and piano.
She is also a workshop facilitator and events co-ordinator and runs the Wilful Community Choir www.wilfulchoir.com/ in Kingston. She performs with her students and choir members for various local charities
Her album Mischief of self-penned songs in a variety of styles was released in 2018.
Chas Warlow
Chas has produced 3 albums of original music, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous – from songs about love and vulnerability to songs about taxing Apple (or not taxing them) and eating messy food on the tube.
He has played his music in the UK and abroad, most recently in a pre-pandemic North America.
His website is chaswarlow.comand his albums are available at https://chaswarlow.bandcamp.com/
Chas says “some people have tried to compare me to other singer-songwriters – but they’ve failed. I’m worried that what I do might be said to be completely original.”
For an example of one of Chas’s tongue-in-cheek satirical songs, see the video of the “brilliant original topical song” (Marc Nerenberg, founder of the Yellow Door Coffee House, Montreal), Raise the Straight Flag, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CB0huea5ro.
Keith Buckman:
Best known to progressive rock and folk listeners for his work with The Far Meadow, Kindred Spirit Band, and Marshpoem, Keith Buckman has only recently branched out as a solo performer. Writing songs inspired by history and landscape, his debut solo EP ‘Of the Low Weald and the Marsh’ is inspired by stories discovered while researching his own family history, set in the Low Weald and Romney Marsh areas of Kent during the late nineteenth century. Combining narrational vocals with intricate fingerstyle acoustic guitar accompaniment, his songs explore themes of hardship, resilience, love and aspiration. ‘Although I grew up in the suburbs of Greater London and have no photographs or handed-down accounts of those who inspired the songs, I feel a deep personal connection to their stories and the rural landscape they inhabited. I’m sure many listeners will relate to similar stories and themes
they can find in their own family histories.’
Of The Low Weald and the Marsh is due for release as a digital download on Bandcamp on 21 st February 2025. Release link: https://keithbuckman.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-low-weald-and-the- Marsh
Live studio performance of ‘The Milleress’: https://youtu.be/3UcWVmeIj2Y
Short documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FswKXz9qQQ
Email: keithbuckmansongs@gmail.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/keithbuckmansongs/

Storytime! Easter special
2025-04-09 10:30 - 11:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
Join Courtney as she reads classic children’s storybooks! This event is perfect for inspiring little ones.
Cost is £2 per child, redeemable against the purchase of any book. You can grab a ticket here or instore.

Book Club 46: Saltblood
2025-04-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading Saltblood by Francesca De Tores.
Breathing life into the Golden Age of Piracy, Saltblood is a thrilling adventure on the high seas and an exploration of identity and freedom. Described as ‘Master and Commander meets Thelma & Louise’, it follows the story of Mary Read, one of history’s most remarkable figures.
All are welcome! Contact us if you’d like to come along.

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Storytime!
2025-04-27 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-05-11 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-05-25 10:00 - 10:30 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom

Book Club 47: Gabriel's Moon
2025-05-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, KT2 5QF, United Kingdom
This month we’re reading Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd.
Gabriel Dax is an acclaimed travel writer by day, capturing changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into the shadows of espionage… now an accidental spy, we follow Gabriel from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw.
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