Events

This month we’re reading The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak  Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022, The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal. It is set between present-day London and 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, …

Join us on Sunday 29th May at 2pm for a very special book signing with local writer Natalie O'Rourke MBE, author of Only Heroes and Horses: the heart-warming true story of the Park Lane Stables. Come along to get to know the author, grab your copy of the newly-released book, and hopefully to meet a special four-legged …

Join us for an incredible evening with local author and presenter Anne Sebba (author of the bestselling biography That Woman: a life of Wallis Simpson), to celebrate the paperback release of her new book Ethel Rosenberg : The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother. Anne will discuss her new masterfully-researched and deeply …

This month we’re reading Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk More darkly humorous than the title suggests, Drive Your Plow is a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, …

We're excited to announce a new yoga class at Parade's End Books on Wednesday mornings! All are welcome to drop into classes, which are on Wednesday mornings. In our beautiful bookshop setting, come along for yoga on Wednesdays: from 9am - 9.50am every Wednesday, George will be leading Hatha Yoga for beginners and beyond. Classes …

This month we’re reading Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce. Set in 1950, the book follows Margery Benson as she abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or …

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tove Jansson’s classic novel The Summer Book, we are hosting an online event with Tove's niece Sophia Jansson – the inspiration for the character of ‘Sophia’ in the book. The event takes place online on Thursday, September 1st at 7pm, with Sophia in conversation with bookseller Fleur Sinclair. Event free when …

This month we’re reading Women's Prize Winner The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. The book follows fourteen-year-old Benny Oh, who begins to hear voices after the tragic death of this father. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, …

"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…" Join …

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 …