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.
Join us in Bridgnorth for an evening with bestselling author Rachel Joyce as she talks about her new novel The Homemade God. There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the family’s house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their...
Tickets: £10 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of The Homemade God) or £20 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of The Homemade God).
Join us for an evening with bestselling historians and number one military podcast hosts James Holland and Al Murray as they talk about their new book Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New...
Tickets: £12 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Victory '45) or £25 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Victory '45))
Join us in Bridgnorth for an afternoon with TV presenter, journalist and author Louise Minchin as she talks about her debut crime novel, Isolation Island, published in paperback on 24th April. Isolation Island is a tense, addictive thriller set within the world of...
Tickets: £12 (includes a signed paperback copy of Isolation Island)
Join us for an evening with TV presenter, journalist and author Louise Minchin as she talks about her debut crime novel, Isolation Island, published in paperback on 24th April. Isolation Island is a tense, addictive thriller set within the world of hidden cameras and...
Tickets: £12 (includes a signed paperback copy of Isolation Island)
Live a complete life on your own terms – join us for an evening with journalist, writer and public speaker Nicola Slawson as she talks about her new book Single. Around 40 per cent of UK adults are single at any one time. Far from being a transitional state...
Tickets: £10 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Single) or £17 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Single).
Booka Bookshop and Linghams Booksellers have EXCITING NEWS – we are delighted to be hosting an evening with Everton legend DUNCAN FERGUSON aka Big Dunc, in conversation at St Georges Hall, Liverpool, to celebrate the release of his new book BIG DUNC: The Upfront...
Tickets: £34 Admits One and includes a copy of Big Dunc: The Upfront Autobiography)
Join Lucy Easthope, the UK’s top emergency planner, as she talks about her new book Come What May and shares life-changing lessons on recovery learnt through a life working in disaster. We all know that at some point in life, we will experience pain, uncertainty...
Tickets: £10 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Come What May) or £20 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Come What May).
Join us for an evening with journalist and Chief Presenter for BBC news, Reeta Chakrabarti, as she talks about her career and her debut novel Finding Belle. What will it take to uncover her past? A lost child. When Mivvi is young, her mother Belle is a puzzle:...
Tickets: £18 (Admits One and includes a signed copy of Finding Belle) or £28 (Admits Two & includes One signed copy of Finding Belle)
Come along and meet children’s author Bryher Mackenzie as she shares her new book Great-Aunt Margot and Me. A riotous celebration of family that gently deals with the forgetfulness many children will experience in their loved ones, and the power that music and...
Tickets: £3 - Redeemable against the book
Join us for an evening with leading mathematician Marcus du Sautoy as he talks about his new book Blueprints, an entertaining exploration of how Mathematics shapes creativity. Marcus du Sautoy, award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor, looks to the arts to...
Tickets: £10 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Blueprints) or £22 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Blueprints).
Booka Bookshop and Linghams Booksellers, working with Chester Literature Festival at Storyhouse Chester, are thrilled to announce an event with much loved actress, screenwriter and bestselling author, Ruth Jones, for her new novel, ‘By Your Side’. Linda and Levi will...
Tickets: £35 (Admits One & includes a signed hardback copy of By Your Side)
BAFTA winning co-creator of Gavin & Stacey, Ruth Jones returns to Oswestry! We’re thrilled to announce an event with much loved actress, screenwriter and bestselling author, Ruth Jones, for her new novel, ‘By Your Side’. Linda and Levi will never meet.But they’re...
Tickets: £23 (includes a signed copy of By Your Side)
Join worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith for a morning of sheer delight as he talks about his latest books. Allow Alexander to transport you to the offices of The Perfect Passion Company, a dating agency in Edinburgh’s New Town, the setting for...
Tickets: £20 (Admits One, includes signed copy of Looking for You or The Lost Language of Oysters)
Welcome to the Spring Storytime! Join us for The Best Garden In The World, and find out all about Steve the Squirrel and his horticultural adventures. We will also be planting sunflower seeds! Disclaimer: This event will only go ahead with five bookings. Upon the...
Tickets: £3 - Redeemable against the book
Welcome to the Spring Storytime! Join us for The Best Garden In The World, and find out all about Steve the Squirrel and his horticultural adventures. We will also be planting sunflower seeds! Disclaimer: This event will only go ahead with five bookings. Upon the...
Tickets: £3 - Redeemable against the book
Join us for an evening with bestselling author Conn Iggulden as he transports us to the heart of a Roman dynasty beset by power struggles and betrayal in his new book Tyrant, the second book in his epic Nero trilogy. The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has...
Tickets: £10 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Tyrant) or £22 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Tyrant).
Calling all cycling fans! Journey to the heart of pro cycling as Booka Bookshop, in collaboration with Adrenaline Sporting Events, present an evening with Team Sky and Ineos Grenadiers legend, Luke Rowe, talking about his new memoir Road Captain and life at the heart...
Tickets: £24 (includes a signed copy of Road Captain)
Join us in Bridgnorth for an evening with bestselling author, broadcaster and national treasure the Reverend Richard Coles as he talks about life and his new novel A Death on Location, the fourth instalment in his Canon Clement mystery series. In the spring of 1990,...
Tickets: £23 (Admits One and includes a signed copy of A Death on Location) or £33 (Admits Two with one signed copy of A Death on Location)
Join us for an evening with Tracy Chevalier, the globally bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, as we celebrate the paperback publication of her latest novel The Glassmaker. Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the...
Tickets: £15 (Admits One & includes a signed paperback copy of The Glassmaker)
Join us for an evening with Eowyn Ivey, author of the million copy bestseller The Snow Child, as she talks about her new novel Black Woods, Blue Sky, a novel about the beauty and terror of the Alaskan wilderness, the love between a mother and a daughter, and what it...
Tickets: £10 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Black Woods, Blue Sky) or £20 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Black Woods, Blue Sky).