Journey far and wide with Hungerford’s Literary Festival Friday, 13 October to Sunday, 15 October 2017 This year’s Hungerford Literary Festival (a collaboration between the bookshop and Arts for Hungerford) runs from 13 to 15 October, and is inspired by…
Friday 30th June, 7.30pm at The Hungerford Bookshop George Baxter has settled for a comfortable life, content as the years unfold predictably — until Win, his wife of twenty-six years, dies. With his loyal dog Monty by his side, George…
Saturday 24th June at 10:30am in St Mary’s Church, Kintbury Authors Paula Byrne and Helena Kelly will be talking about their books as part of ‘Jane Austen – the Kintbury Connection’: a weekend of events celebrating the writer’s association with…
Tuesday 20th June, 7.30pm at Hungerford Bookshop Otters hold an almost unique place in the animal kingdom of the British Isles, being one of the very few creatures that give birth once every two years. They are the most secretive…
Thursday 15th June, 7.30pm in Hungerford Town Hall Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney explore the hidden friendships between Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf. A Secret Sisterhood (published June 1st) uncovers the hidden literary friendships of…
Thursday May 25th, 7:30pm in Hungerford Town Hall To celebrate the release of Henry Hemming’s latest book ‘M’ Maxwell Knight: MI5’s Greatest Spymaster’, the author will be giving a talk about two remarkable female spies and the man who ran…
Wednesday April 12th, 8pm at The Croft Hall: Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction. She has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers…
February 21st, 7:30pm in Hungerford Bookshop: Local author Nicola Cornick will be talking about her latest novel ‘The Phantom Tree’ in The Hungerford Bookshop. Her book is inspired by the story of Mary Seymour (b. 1548) – she disappeared from…
February 10th, 7:30pm in Hungerford Bookshop: Poetry in the bookshop is back. Set in an informal and cosy atmosphere amongst books with plenty of wine on hand, this is an opportunity to read aloud your poem to others in a…
This is a memoir of love, loss, motherhood, sex and danger. Broadcaster, writer and journalist Clover Stroud says: “I had a very unconventional and very happy childhood in Wiltshire, which ended in the most violent way when my mother suffered…
Some photos from our fantastic opening event
