Upcoming Events at David's Bookshop

A relaxed evening to work on your latest craft project, from painting miniatures to crochet and everything in between. Come enjoy great drinks and a cosy atmosphere.

Free and open to all.
Miniatures and paint available to hire for a £5 fee.

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Join us for an evening with Dominique Ludwig and Dr Emily Leeming. They will ll be in discussion for their latest books, No-Nonsense Nutrition and Fibre Power. 

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Join us for an evening with Lucy Jane Wood! 

Lucy Jane Wood is a Sunday Times bestselling author, online content creator, avid reader and cosiness-seeker from the Wirral. These days, you’ll find her living in London, giant coffee in hand, and being headbutted at any given time by her cat.

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Let vinyl set the vibe for your Friday night. Come and enjoy David’s after hours. There will be a new selection of wine & beers available alongside our usual hot drinks.

A curated collection of records will be request from, browse and buy on the night. Free and open to everyone.

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Bea is back at David's! For the publication of her next novel Your Favourite Fake Girlfriend, a sweet and swoony fake-dating romance - because life's never perfect but pretending might be. A dreamy contemporary love story from the brilliantly talented author of We Used to be Magic.

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A new monthly night of live performance at David’s.

Are you interested in performing? If so drop an email to submissions@davids-music.co.uk
All performers are welcome, not just musicians, we want poets, magicians, comedians etc - anyone that has a talent they want to showcase.

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Join us for an event with Jack Cornish. Jack Cornish is head of paths at the Ramblers Association, Britain's largest walking charity. In 2017, he walked across the country from Land's End to John O'Groats, and he has dedicated the last seven years of his life to walking and recording the forgotten routes of England and Wales. He is ten years into an attempt to walk every street in London, where he lives.

Here in conversation about his book The Lost Paths and also The Icknield Way, which he wrote the introduction to.

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The chance to come along and read, alone or with friends, without the pressure of having to finish an assigned book, just bring along whatever you’re currently reading. Between 7pm and 7:30pm will be for food/mingling/getting settled in, then 7:30pm and 8:30pm will be for reading. Of course, if you’d like to read silently for the whole time then please do! On the night, there will be drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), cakes and snacks available from our cafe. If you like to read with a silky cup of coffee beside you, a glass of wine, or totally solo then please join us. For ages 7+.

Non-ticketed and free, just turn up.

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Join us for the Magic: The Gathering Marvel Super Heroes Pre-Release and be among the first to experience the newest set!

Each player will receive a pre-release kit to build a deck and compete in a friendly tournament environment. It’s a great chance to explore the new cards, meet other players and enjoy an evening of Magic. Prizes will be awarded and all are welcome! 

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Come for a magical event with children's poet and performer Joshua Seigal.

Joshua Seigal is a two-time-winner of the Laugh Out Loud awards (also known as the Lollies) in 2020 with I Bet I Can Make You Laugh and in 2023 with Yapping Away. Joshua won the People's Book Prize in 2022, and his poetry collection Who Let the Words Out? also won the 2024 Reading Rocks award in the Lower Key Stage Two category in 2024.

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We're delighted to be hosting Robin Ince here at David's again, this time for his latest poetry collection Let The Quiet Ones Rise.

Robin Ince is a flibbertigibbet. His working life began in stand-up comedy, but he is excited by too many things to take a single path. He was co-creator and, for 16 years, co-host of the multi-award-winning international success The Infinite Monkey Cage. He has written books on the universe (and all the stuff that is in it), the neurodivergent mind, giant killer crab novels, and his deep love of bookshops and libraries. In 2024 he started writing poetry obsessively and he loves the freedom that comes with it.

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Come for a fun Friday night of books, bad taste and beautiful treats with Ione Gamble and Gina Tonic of Polyester Zine and Podcast.

In a world constantly vying for our attention, having faith in your own (bad) taste is more than a small subversion - it's a rallying cry to live our lives unapologetically.

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Join us for an event with Bee Wilson, celebrating the paperback release of The Heart-Shaped Tin.

This strikingly original account from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives. Thoughtful, tender and beautifully written, The Heart-Shaped Tin is a moving examination of love, loss, broken cups and the legacy of things we all leave behind.

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We are extremely excited to be hosting an event with James Fox for the paperback publication of Craftland: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades. For generations, what we made with our hands shaped who we were. The skills and knowledge passed down to us built our communities and defined our regions.

And if you know where to look, they still do. In Craftland, James Fox seeks out Britain’s last great craftspeople – those who are keeping our vanishing trades and traditions alive. Through them, we witness not only the living past but a deeper, more connected way of living today: one that is not yet lost and might still shape our future.

This soul-stirring journey shows that Britain is still a craft land, if only we have eyes to see it.

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Join us for an event with Amy Jeffs, here for the publication of Arthur.

From Sunday Times bestseller Amy Jeffs', Arthur: A New Life mines the deep, elusive seams of a story we think we all know: the legend of King Arthur.

But here he is anew: a larger-than-life warlord, a hero raised by fairies, a leader of the wild hunt, a monster-slayer, lying wounded under the ash cloud, longing to rise again. Tracing an epic story from Merlin's conception and the building of the Round Table to the abduction of Guinevere and King Arthur's ambitious quest for Empire, this Arthur is as real as any other, brought back to life from the earliest sources. Drawing out the dark and beautiful stories from the original medieval and early modern texts, Amy guides the reader from citadels through forests, into volcanoes, caves and riverbanks and beyond, even as far as Hell and the Otherworld.

Going further than merely the stories, she provides incisive commentary about each tale, emphasising the legends' crafted nature and their symbiotic relationship with the political cultures of contemporary medieval Europe. Thirty original linocut illustrations map the inky Arthurian myth-scape, darkened by time, familiar as a dream.

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Join us from 11:30pm to celebrate the release of ACOTAR 6. Free ACOTAR themed cocktails and luxury hot drinks with every order. Pre-order your copy now to be added to the guestlist.

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