Chorleywood Bookshop literary events in June with Nick Clegg, Judy Murray and Tony Robinson

An Evening with Judy Murray

As mother to tennis champions Andy and Jamie Murray, Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all-round can-do woman, Judy Murray is a role model for believing in yourself and reaching out to ambition.

Her memoir charts the challenges she has faced, from desperate finances and growing pains to entrenched sexism.

The Junction, Christ Church, Chorleywood, WD3 5SG, Wednesday, June 14, 7pm.

An Evening with Wendy Holden

Journalist and biographer Wendy Holden tells the remarkable story of three “miracle babies” secretly born in the German camps during World War Two.

Three women were newly pregnant when they were sent to Auschwitz, coming under the gaze of Dr Josef Mengele. The first miracle was that the Nazis ran out of Zyklon B the gas used to exterminate the prisoners. They were then sent to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they concealed their condition. Then, as the Allies closed in, they travelled for 17 days on trains to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. They were helped along the way by guards, civilians and other prisoners.

Chorleywood Library, Lower Road, Chorleywood WD3 5LB, Thursday, June 15, 7.30pm.

An Evening with Simon Sebag Montefiore

Award-winning historian and storyteller Simon Sebag Montefiore brings his new novel Red Sky at Noon.

Stalingrad, Russia, 1942: War is on the horizon. Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis.

Switching between Benya’s war in the grasslands of Southern Russia and Stalin’s plans in the Kremlin, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a heartbeat away.

The Junction, Christ Church, Chorleywood, WD3 5SG, Monday, June 19, 7pm.

An Evening with Nick Clegg

As Deputy Prime Minister of Britain’s first coalition government in over fifty years, Nick Clegg witnessed this change from the inside. Here he offers a frank account of his experiences – from his spectacular rise in the 2010 election to a brutal defeat in 2015, from his early years as an MEP in Brussels to the fall-out of Britain’s EU referendum – and puts the case for a new politics based on reason and compromise.

Part memoir, part road-map through these tumultuous times, he argues that navigating our future will rely more than ever on collaboration, reforming our political institutions and a renewed belief in the values of liberalism.

The Great Hall, Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, HA6 2HT, Wednesday, June 28, 6.30pm.

An Afternoon with Jan Moran Neil

Red Lipstick & Revelations is a collection of poetry featuring international prize-winning and commended writings. The poems take you on a journey from the African night air to Montreal, the road to Strathclyde or the Stranraer ferry.

Jan will bring the poetry to life in performance and tell hidden stories behind the stories

Saint Andrews Church, 12 Packhorse Road, Gerrards Cross, SL9 7QE, Wednesday, June 28, 2.30pm.

An Evening with Tony Robinson

The actor, presenter and author’s long-awaited autobiography, No Cunning Plan, reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage production of Oliver!, to comedy icon Baldrick, the loyal servant and turnip aficionado in Blackadder.

Along the way he was bullied by Steve Marriott, failed to impress Liza Minnelli and was pushed into a stinking London dock by John Wayne.  He presented Time Team for twenty years, watching countless gardens ruthlessly dug up in the name of archaeology, and risked life and limb filming The Worst Jobs in History.

St Clement Danes School, Chorleywood, WD3 6EW, Friday, June 30, 7.30pm.