Forthcoming Events
Tom Williamson and Anne Rowe talk about and sign their new book, Hertfordshire A Landscape History
Wednesday 26 June 2013 - 7:30
Michael Simkins talks about and signs his new book, The Rules of Acting During Independent Booksellers Week
Tuesday 02 July 2013 - 7:00 pm
Lord Douglas Hurd talks about and signs his new book, Disraeli or The Two Lives With Afternoon Tea at Letchworth Golf Club
Wednesday 17 July 2013 - 3:00 pm
Colin Babb talks about and signs his new book, They Gave The Crowd Plenty Fun: West Indian Cricket and its Relationship with the British-Resident Caribbean Diaspora
Wednesday 24 July 2013 - 7:30 pm
Past Events
Vitali Vitaliev An Evening with the renowned author
Wednesday 19 June 2013 - 7:30 pm
Creepy Crawlies Insects, reptiles and more from Shepreth Wildlife Park
Saturday 15 June 2013 - 11 am until 1 pm
Junction - A First Anthology from Poetry ID
Thursday 13 June 2013 - 7:30 pm
Martin Gurdon signs his new book, Doing Bird, A Chicken Keeper’s Year
Saturday 11 May 2013 - 11 am
Wolf People LIVE in-store
Saturday 04 May 2013 - 7pm
Helping Your Child to Read With author Kaye Umansky and Jane Walker of Barrington Stoke
Thursday 02 May 2013 - 7:30 pm
David’s Bookshop Celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a Debate on Progress over the Last 50 Years and a Party
Saturday 27 April 2013 - 7:00 pm
Getting started with Baby-Led Weaning Seminar
Friday 26 April 2013 - 10 am
Book Club - novelist, Romesh Gunesekera discusses his new book, The Prisoner of Paradise Read the book, then discuss with the author, live at David’s
Thursday 25 April 2013 - 7:30 pm
Record Store Day 2013
Saturday 20 April 2013 - 8am
Crime Fiction Writer, S. J. Bolton talks about and signs her new book, Like This Forever
Monday 15 April 2013 - 7;30
Sid Griffin sings & chats LIVE in store!
Wednesday 27 March 2013 - 7.30pm
Poetry and Cake at David's Bookshop
Sunday 24 March 2013 - 5:00 pm
Round the World and Round the Clock Ten in a Bed – Local Storytelling Group, Fibs and Fables take up Challenge
Saturday 09 March 2013 - Noon until Midnight
Dr Nicholas Mee signs his new book, Higgs Force – Cosmic Symmetry Shattered The story of the greatest scientific discovery for 50 years
Saturday 23 February 2013 - 11 am onwards
David's Annual Trivia Quiz
Sunday 30 December 2012 - 5:30 pm
“Buddy Rescue and the Dolphin Family” book and television animation launch
Saturday 29 December 2012 - 11 am
Poet John Gohorry in Residence
Saturday 01 December 2012 - 10:30 am until 5:00 pm
Ethan Johns LIVE In-store
Monday 19 November 2012 - 6.00pm
Salley Vickers Talks About her New Book, The Cleaner of Chartres
Thursday 08 November 2012 - 7:30 pm
David’s Books Music and Card Sale Weekend
Saturday 03 November 2012 - 8am -6pm on Saturday and 10:00 - 5:00 on Sunday
Fiore Quartet playing in David's Bookshop / David's Music
Saturday 13 October 2012 - 3 p.m.
We Heart Libraries Autumn Social
Thursday 04 October 2012 - 6:45 pm
Daniel Trilling Talks About his New Book, Bloody Nasty People, The Rise of Britain’s Far Right
Wednesday 03 October 2012 - 7:30 pm
Local Writer, Elizabeth Taylor signs her New Book, Next Stop Siberia
Saturday 29 September 2012 - 11 am
Screening: LAST SHOP STANDING The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Independent Record Shop
Friday 28 September 2012 - 7:30 pm
Jerry Brotton Talks About his New Book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Monday 24 September 2012 - 7:30
MISTER BLAIR AND MISTER COMMON: a talk by Dr Keith Armstrong on the friendship between Newcastle working class writer Jack Common and George Orwell
Saturday 22 September 2012 - 7:30 pm
Ben Fogle Talks About his New Book, The Accidental Naturalist *SOLD OUT*
Friday 07 September 2012 - 7:00 pm
A Celebration of Winnie the Witch’s 25th Birthday
Monday 20 August 2012 - 3:00 pm
Isobel Williams -- Captain Scott’s Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans
Monday 16 July 2012 - 7:30 pm
WILKO JOHNSON Talks about & Signs His New Autobiography
Monday 09 July 2012 - 7.30pm
The Tales of Herman and Spice Launch
Friday 06 July 2012 - 7:00 pm
Mike Carter Talks About his 3,000 Mile Bicycle Trip Around the Coast of Britain and Signs One Man and His Bike
Thursday 05 July 2012 - 7:30 pm
The Bookshop Band Comes To David’s
Saturday 30 June 2012 - 2:30 and 3:30
Poetry and Cake at David's Bookshop
Sunday 24 June 2012 - 5:30
Chris West Talks About and Signs his New Book, First Class - A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps
Wednesday 20 June 2012 - 7:30
Hearts, Herts and Happy Endings: Freya North at the Letchworth Festival
Tuesday 19 June 2012 - 7:00 pm
How to Survive as a Successful Writer Talk Led by Author and Journalist, Vitali Vitaliev
Friday 15 June 2012 - 7:30
Marina Lewycka Talks about and Signs her New Book, Various Pets Alive & Dead
Monday 21 May 2012 - 7:30 pm
John Julius Norwich Talks About and Signs his New Book, The Popes: A History
Monday 14 May 2012 - 7:30
Voula Grand Talks About and Signs her Debut Novel, Honor’s Shadow and The Psychology Book
Tuesday 08 May 2012 - 7:30 pm
Anthony Peake Talks About and Signs his New Book, The Labyrinth of Time
Thursday 03 May 2012 - 7:30
World Book Night
Monday 23 April 2012 - 7:00 pm
Discount sale - 20% off almost everything!
Sunday 22 April 2012 - All day
Mega Mash Up: Draw Your Own Adventure for 6-11 Year Olds with Authors, Nikalas Catlow and Tim Wesson
Saturday 21 April 2012 - 3:00 pm
Discount Sale - 20% off almost everything in our two shops!!!
Saturday 21 April 2012 - 12 noon onwards
Helen Reddington talk: The Lost Women of Rock, Female Musicians of the Punk Era
Friday 20 April 2012 - 7.30pm
Bestselling Author, Robert Goddard Talks About his Thriller, Fault Line
Wednesday 11 April 2012 - 7:30 pm
Brilliant Local Pianist, Andrei Pytaleu Plays Classical and Jazz at David's Music Shop
Saturday 07 April 2012 - 2 pm
Gerrard Williams Talks About and Signs his New Book, Grey Wolf The Escape of Adolf Hitler
Monday 02 April 2012 - 7:30 pm
Kathy Lette Talks About and Signs her New Novel, The Boy Who Fell to Earth
Thursday 29 March 2012 - 7:30 pm
Mary Farmer Signs Cold Tears, a Biography of her Work as a Dietitian
Saturday 24 March 2012 - 11 onwards
Naomi Richards Talks About and Signs her New Book, The Parent’s Toolkit
Thursday 15 March 2012 - 7:30
Martin Sixsmith and Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Wednesday 07 March 2012 - 7:30 pm
Joanna Trollope Talks About and Signs her new bestselling novel, The Soldiers Wife
Friday 10 February 2012 - 7:30 pm
David's Annual Trivia Quizz
Thursday 29 December 2011 - 7:00 pm
Hertfordhire Author, Jayne-Marie Barker signs her first novel, Beneath the Daisies
Saturday 10 December 2011 - 10:30 onwards
David's Christmas Market
Saturday 26 November 2011 - 3 -7
Book Signing, 1st Bedfordshires: Mons to the Somme with Steven Fuller
Wednesday 16 November 2011 - 7:30 pm
John Sutherland talks about and signs his new book, Lives of the Novelists, A History of Fiction in 287 Lives.
Thursday 03 November 2011 - 7:30 pm
Gilad Atzmon, World Leading Jazz Saxophonist and Israel-Born Author of The Wandering Who, A Study of Jewish Identity Politics Plays and Reads At David’s Bookshop
Monday 24 October 2011 - 7:30 pm
Author, Jane Robinson Talks about the History of Women's Institute
Thursday 13 October 2011 - 7:30 pm
Co-Author of A Place in the Country: Three Counties Asylum 1860-1998, Rory Reynolds talks about the History of Fairfield Park At David’s Bookshop
Thursday 29 September 2011 - 7:30 pm
Gyles Brandreth Opens David’s New Coffee and Cake Shop
Saturday 24 September 2011 - 10:45 am until 11:45 am
Steve Bell Talks and Signs his New Book, If…Bursts Out During the George Orwell Festival
Saturday 17 September 2011 - 6 pm
Debate on What George Orwell Would Write About Today
Friday 16 September 2011 - 7:30 pm at St Christopher School, Letchworth
George Orwell in the Soviet Union Talk Led by Author and Journalist, Vitali Vitaliev
Tuesday 13 September 2011 - 7.30 pm
Book Launch: The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited, with author Stephen Armstrong
Monday 12 September 2011 - 7:30 pm
Big Issue Founder, John Bird Opens the George Orwell Festival
Friday 09 September 2011 - 6:30 pm
Co-authors Norman and Maggie Magowan will relate the story of their epic 35,000 mile motorcycle adventure, told in their new book, Adventures in Yellow
Thursday 08 September 2011 - 7:30
Chris Mullin, Author, Journalist, Former MP, Minister in Three Departments and Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Signs and Talks about his New Book, A Walk-On Part
Thursday 01 September 2011 - 7:30 pm
An Evening with Gervase Phinn **Now fully booked**
Monday 25 July 2011 - 7 pm
Mindfulness Workshop With Award-Winning Clinical Psychologist, Dr Cecilia d’Felice
Thursday 30 June 2011 - 7:30 pm
Mindfulness Workshop With Award-Winning Clinical Psychologist, Dr Cecilia d’Felice
Tuesday 28 June 2011 - 7:30 pm
Public Launch of An Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire with editor David Short, during Letchworth Festival
Wednesday 22 June 2011 - 7.30 pm
Stuart Clark talks Signs his New Novel, The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth During the Letchworth Festival
Tuesday 14 June 2011 - 7:30 pm
Renowned Author and Comic Actor, Emma Kennedy Talks about and Signs her Hilarious New Book, I Left My Tent in San Francisco
Tuesday 07 June 2011 - 7:30 pm
Award-Winning Clinical Psychologist Does a Mindfulness Workshop **FULLY BOOKED**
Thursday 12 May 2011 - 7:30 pm
Alternative Vote Referendum Debate
Tuesday 26 April 2011 - 7.30 pm
Publishing Your Own Book: From Idea to Reality Local Printmaker Kim Major-George Talks About Her Experience with Self-Publishing
Tuesday 19 April 2011 - 7:30 pm
An Evening with Francis Pryor, BBC Television Presenter
Thursday 14 April 2011 - 19:30 - 21:30
Book Signing with local author Kathleen McCaul
Saturday 09 April 2011 - 11 am to 1 pm
“End of Life: It’s Time to Allow Assisted Dying” Debate
Tuesday 05 April 2011 - 7:30 pm
Stephen Clarke Talks about and Signs his New Book, Paris Revealed
Monday 04 April 2011 - 7:30 pm
The Crisis Behind Our Crisis: talk and discussion with Alexander Boot
Tuesday 22 March 2011 - 7.30 pm
John Gohorry - Poet in Residence
Saturday 12 March 2011 - 11 am to 4 pm
Bestselling novellist Joanna Trollope signing at David's Bookshop
Wednesday 09 March 2011 - 4 pm
Children of the Labouring Poor: The working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire - talk with Eileen Wallace
Tuesday 08 March 2011 - 7.30 pm
A Discussion About The Book Everyone Should Read on World Book Night * Event Cancelled *
Saturday 05 March 2011 - 6:30 pm
Book Launch - Servants of Empire: An Imperial Memoir of a British Family
Thursday 17 February 2011 - 19:00
Cake Stall in aid of Little Helpers - Special Care Baby Unit
Saturday 12 February 2011 - 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
Storytime
Friday 04 February 2011 - 4pm
Alex MacKenzie Signs his Book The Life & Times of the Motown Stars
Tuesday 01 February 2011 - 7:30 pm
Storytime for Children
Saturday 29 January 2011 - 11am
Kristin Hersh Sings and Signs her New Book Paradoxical Undressing
Thursday 27 January 2011 - 7:30 pm
David's Trivia Quiz
Tuesday 28 December 2010 - 17.30 to 19.00 (approx)
All About Me by Santa Claus
Saturday 11 December 2010 - 12.00 - 14.00
David's Christmas Market
Friday 26 November 2010 - 4 pm to 9 pm
Pre-Christmas Sale
Saturday 06 November 2010 - 8 until 7
Polly Toynbee & David Walker Book Signing and Talk
Thursday 04 November 2010 - 19.30
Viv Anderson MBE - talking (with Carl williams) and signing his new book.
Thursday 28 October 2010 - 7:30
Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson, author talk and book signing
Tuesday 26 October 2010 - 19.30
Book Launch - The Origins of Hertfordshire
Thursday 14 October 2010 - 7:30 pm
Can't Read, Won't Read: For Parents & Teachers of Struggling Readers
Wednesday 06 October 2010 - 7:30 pm
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly!
Wednesday 15 September 2010 - 18:00 - 19.00
Survivors Poetry Reading
Monday 06 September 2010 - 7:30 pm
Children's Author, Emma Kennedy, Talk and Book Signing
Saturday 10 July 2010 - 3 pm
Carless Day
Saturday 10 July 2010 - 8 pm to 6 pm
Children’s Book Swap During the Letchworth Festival
Saturday 10 July 2010 - 10 am to 3 pm
Rachel and Stitches
Saturday 10 July 2010 - 10:30 to 12:30
Author, June Matthews, Tells of her Journey as a WW2 Evacuee
Tuesday 06 July 2010 - 7:30 pm
Jason Cook, a Reformed Local Gangster, Comes to David's Share · Public Event
Saturday 03 July 2010 - 10 am to 1 pm
Murder In Flitwick Wood & Other Stories
Thursday 01 July 2010 - 7.30 pm
Children Rule - Is It OK?
Wednesday 30 June 2010 - 7:30 pm
THE MONEYLESS MAN - Public Debate
Tuesday 29 June 2010 - 7:30 pm
TOBY LITT - Reading & signing new book
Monday 28 June 2010 - 7:30 pm
An Evening With Ann Leslie
Friday 18 June 2010 - 7:30 pm
The Tales of Herman and Spice Launch
Wednesday 12 July 0006 - 7:00 pm
Junction - A First Anthology from Poetry ID
Tuesday 00 December 0000 - 7 pm
Where is David's Bookshop?
David's Bookshops are located in Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, only a few minutes’ walk from the railway station in the heart of the Town Centre. There is ample parking nearby.
Looking for a book?
If you are looking for a specific book that you have been unable to find, please contact David's Bookshops and we will try and source it for you.
Contact Information
David's Bookshop
01462 684631
David's Music
01462 475900
School Orders
01462 475924
Opening Times
David's Bookshop
Monday - Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm
David's Music
Monday - Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm
