Hosting a regular programme of author talks, book signings and themed events is an important and exciting part of what we do. We work hard to bring an exciting mix of bestselling authors and some of the best new writers to Oswestry. Booka prides itself on creating an ‘event experience’ for both audience and author. As well as the bookshop we make use of a number of outside venues for our larger events.
In addition to our own events, we also provide bookselling services to support the appearance of authors and celebrities at a number of Festivals and Shows.
Escape the sofa and travel the globe with Alexander McCall Smith. Join the master storyteller as he transports you to Germany for the long-awaited return of the hilariously hapless Prof Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld, then jet to Sweden to hear about the latest...
Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or from £12 (live stream plus a copy of one of the books delivered to your door - UK only)
Join Sunday Times bestselling authors, Marian Keyes and Chris Brookmyre, in conversation for the first time, discussing their new novels, Grown Ups and The Cut with Jude Rogers. Grown Ups (out in paperback) Meet Jessie, Cara AND Nell. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed...
Tickets: Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or £12 / £21.99 (live stream plus copy of either book delivered to your door - UK only)
Join Emma Stonex as she talks about her new book, The Lamplighters, one of 2021’s most anticipated debut novels. They say we’ll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets… 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote...
Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or £18 (live stream plus copy of book delivered to your door)
Join us for this unmissable conversation about ‘American Dirt’ with Jeanine Cummins and Sam Baker. ‘American Dirt’ is an extraordinary story of the lengths a mother will go to to save her son. Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico,...
Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or £10 (live stream plus paperback copy of book delivered to your door - UK only)
Our man in America – join Jon Sopel as he gives his take on the most turbulent US election campaign in living memory. Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail… ’26 February, White House Briefing Room The coronavirus feels like it is changing...
Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or £23 (live stream plus copy of book delivered to your door - UK only)
Join author and illustrator Chris Riddell as he talks about his new book Poems to Fall in Love With. Chris will be talking about curating this collection & of course drawing live, if you’ve not seen Chris at work you’re in for a real treat! In Poems to Fall in...
Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or £15 (live stream plus copy of book delivered to your door)
Join us for a hilarious and highly entertaining event with bestselling children’s author, Pamela Butchart as she talks about her new book ‘The Broken Leg of Doom’. Hilarious, illustrated school-based antics where everything that happens leads to...
Tickets: £8 (live stream plus signed book delivered to your door - UK only)
Join bestselling author Mick Herron on publication day as he talks about his latest spy thriller Slough House. Fellow author Ann Cleeves will be chief interrogator for the evening. Slough House is the seventh instalment in Mick’s bestselling Slough House series....
Tickets: Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or £18 (live stream plus copy of book delivered to your door - UK only)
Join Twitter’s own unofficial poet Laureate, Brian Bilston, as he reads from and answers questions about his new poetry collection. Alexa, what is there to know about love? is a wonderful collection of poems about love in all its forms, covering everything from...
Tickets: £5 (live stream only) or £16 (live stream plus copy of book)
Join Kate Elizabeth Russell, in conversation with Louise O’Neil, as she talks about her novel My Dark Vanessa, one of the most talked about books of 2020 and an instant Sunday Times bestseller. An era-defining novel about the relationship between a...
Tickets: £5
Join Baroness Floella Benjamin for this special ‘Live Steam’ event to celebrate the publication of a new picture book edition of Coming to England charting her her own journey from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of...
Tickets: £12.99 (includes a copy of Coming to England delivered to your door)
Join bestselling crime author Ian Rankin talking about his latest Rebus novel ‘A Song for the Dark Times’ in with fellow crime writer Mark Billingham. **The first 100 people to register for the event with the ‘with book’ option will receive a signed copy...
Tickets: £10 without book or £23 with book (Includes a copy of A Song for the Dark Times delivered to your door)
Join Heather Morris, author of international bestselling novels, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey as she talks about her non-fiction debut Stories of Hope. **The first 100 people to register for the event with the ‘with book’ option...
Tickets: £10 without book or £18 with book (Includes a copy of Stories of Hope)
Join Sir Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestselling author of Warhorse as he talks about his new novel Boy Giant. in conversation with Emily Drabble. **The first 50 people to register for the event will receive a...
Tickets: £12.99 (Includes a copy of Boy Giant delivered to your door)
Join bestselling author and TV Presenter Kate Humble as she talks about her new book A Year of Living Simply. If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining happiness has become, it appears, anything but simple. Having...
Tickets: £23 (Includes a copy of A Year of Living Simply delivered to your door)
Join Raynor Winn, the international bestselling author of The Salt Path, as she returns with her brilliant follow up The Wild Silence. **The first 100 people to register for the event will receive a signed bookplated copy of The Wild Silence. All other attendees will...
Tickets: £19 (Includes a copy of The Wild Silence delivered to your door)
Join bestselling author and the Queen of Crime Val McDermid as she talks about her latest novel Still Life. **The first 100 people to register for this event will receive a signed copy of Still Life . All others will receive an unsigned hardback copy of the book**...
Tickets: £23 (Includes a copy of Still Life delivered to your door)
Join bestselling crime writer Ann Cleeves as she talks about her new book ‘The Darkest Evening’. **Signed Independent Bookshop Exclusive editions for the first 200 people to register for the event. All others will receive an unsigned hardback copy of the...
Tickets: £22 (Includes a hardback copy of The Darkest Evening delivered to your door)