Chorleywood Bookshop will begin 2017 with an array of special events with guest authors discussing their books and the topic at hand....

An Evening with Ruby Wax

Comedian, mental health campaigner and best-selling author, Ruby Wax is a woman of many talents.

She will be at the Chorleywood Bookshop to help you better understand, and give you the tools to cope with, the increasing demands of modern life and your mental health.

Witty, smart and relatable, Ruby Wax shows us all how to de-frazzle for good by making simple changes that give us time to breathe, reflect and live in the moment.

Let Ruby be your guide to a healthier, happier you. You’ve nothing to lose but your stress.

The Junction, Christ Church, Chorleywood, WD3 5SG, Friday, January 6, 2017, 7.30pm.

Watford Observer:

An Evening with Nick Knowles

Over the past ten years he has hosted BBC1 prime time Saturday night quiz shows Break the Safe, Secret Fortune and Who Dares Wins, and he is the presenter of BBC1’s most watched and longest running prime time factual series DIY SOS – The Big Build.

In 2015 Nick Knowles felt overweight, unhealthy and was feeling every one of his 53 years. He travelled to Thailand for a retreat and after fasting for a week, and then adopting a purely vegan diet, Nick returned a changed man.

Now slimmer, healthier, and eating a vegan or vegetarian diet (with the odd day off), Nick wants to share what he has learned. He says: “I need hearty meals not thin weedy plates and I often work outside in cold and wet conditions – a salad won’t cut it – so here’s a vegan and vegetarian cookbook for meat eaters full of hearty filling healthy recipes. And if I can do it – then you can do it.”

By following Proper Healthy Food Nick lost 9 kilos in 3 weeks, his cholesterol fell by a third and his blood pressure dropped to a healthy level but he promises it is rabbit food-free.

Sarratt Village Hall, Sarratt, WD3 6AS, Thursday, January 12, 7.30pm.

Crime night with Emma Flint and Joseph Knox  

From the publishers that brought you The Miniaturist and The Girl on the Train – comes two debut novels. The authors, Emma Flint and Joseph Knox, will bring their new books to Chorleywood Bookshop in the perfect night for crime fans.

Sirens, by Joseph Knox, begins with a teenage runaway. How it ends is up to DC Aiden Waits, a troubled junior detective, who is about to enter a dark world, filled with drugs, politicians, blackmail, exploitation and deception.

In Emma Flint’s Little Deaths it’s the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search, the police make a horrifying discovery.

The Junction Christ Church, Chorleywood, WD3 5SG, Monday, January 23, 7.30pm.

An Evening with Ella Mills

She is the woman who started a food revolution from a blog and has built it into an empire of cookery books, delis and healthy snacks which are now sold in most supermarkets – energy balls.

The new Deliciously Ella With Friends is filled with tasty and nourishing food to feed your friends and family for all occasions.

It is the follow up to the international bestselling Deliciously Ella Every Day, in which she seeks to make life simple with her menus.

The Junction, Christ Church, Chorleywood, WD3 5SG, Wednesday, January 25, 7pm.

Watford Observer:

An Evening with Jem Lester

Schtum explores the complex relationship between people and how sometimes saying nothing, means you can communicate better than you can with words.

Ben Jewell has hit breaking point, his ten-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken. So when the two are forced to move in with Ben’s elderly father, three generations of men – one who can’t talk; two who won’t – are thrown together.

The Junction Christ Church, Chorleywood, WD3 5SG, Monday, January 30, 7pm.

More details here.