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Number of results: 19

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  1. Address

    Books on the Rise, 80 Hill Rise, Richmond, London, TW10 6UB

    Telephone

    07465984454

    Richmond

    Dates

    From:
    3 Dec 2025Open 19:00 - 20:30

    Join Lesley-Ann Jones as she delves into her new book Love, Freddie at Books on the Rise!

    About Love, Freddie:

    Few people knew that Freddie Mercury kept a diary. When he died in 1991, he left behind seventeen handwritten notebooks chronicling his…

    Add LOVE, FREDDIE -Freddie Mercury's Secret Life and Love with Lesley-Ann Jones to your Itinerary

  2. Address

    The Kew Bookshop, 1-2 Station Approach, Kew, London, TW9 3QB

    Telephone

    020 8940 0030

    Kew

    Dates

    From:
    5 Dec 2025Open 16:00 - 20:00

    Come and meet author and illustrator Grace Easton in The Kew Bookshop during the Kew Sparkle shopping evening and get a dedicated and signed copy of her new book The House with a Little Red Door. You can also join in with a mousey craft too!

    Add Grace Easton book Signing and Craft Event to your Itinerary

  3. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    8 Dec 2025Open 12:00 -

    Uncover the horrors of murder as Bernard leads you through the crime scenes in the leafy green of Garibaldi’s Barnes. Be safe going home!!

    Add Bloody Barnes: Bernard O’Keefe, Festival Patron to your Itinerary

  4. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    8 Dec 2025Open 16:00 -

    A dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' ‘The Trial for Murder’

    Add Bloody Barnes: Nick Waring: ‘The Trial for Murder’ to your Itinerary

  5. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    9 Jan 2026Open 13:00 -

    Fuel your love of reading! Join our monthly Book Club to meet fellow bookworms, explore a diverse ranges of novels and share your thoughts over a cup of coffee in our cosy Café.

    “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and…

    Add OSO Book Club 2026: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck to your Itinerary

  6. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    6 Feb 2026to8 Feb 2026

    Weekend pass to all the Bloody Barnes Weekend talks from Friday 6th - Sunday 8th February.

    *Please note this pass does not include Murder Mystery Dinner on February 5th or The Patrons Tea Party on February 6th.

    Add Bloody Barnes Weekend Pass  Share to your Itinerary

  7. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    6 Feb 2026Open 18:00 -

    From murderous characters using enfleurage techniques on bodies to extract their intoxicating aromas to appalling, real life espionage murders-by-scent, this is a look at how fragrance has been used to kill.

    Fragrance brands love a murder story,…

  8. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    6 Feb 2026Open 13:00 -

    'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut…

  9. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    7 Feb 2026Open 14:00 -

    'A Party to Murder’. Get together with these doyens of detection. It will be killing!

    Add Bloody Barnes: Martin Edwards and Antony Johnston with Festival to your Itinerary

  10. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    7 Feb 2026Open 12:00 -

    Criminal Minds’

    Victoria Dowd, sets the criminal scene for Martin Edwards and Antony Johnston – two of our most thrilling, multi-award winning writers.

    Add Bloody Barnes: Martin Edwards and Antony Johnston with Festival Patron Victoria Dowd to your Itinerary

  11. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    7 Feb 2026Open 16:00 -

    Join the wizards of the locked room mysteries and see if you can work out how they dunnit!

    Add Bloody Barnes: Tom Mead and Festival Patron Victoria Dowd. ‘Abracadabra - it's Murder!’ to your Itinerary

  12. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    8 Feb 2026Open 10:00 -

    Crime for the Young 

    ‘Girls - and boys - just wanna have fun’ - and that’s what they get solving crimes with these two brilliant writers for the young.

    Add Bloody Barnes: Crime for the Young Sophie Cleverly with Vanessa O’Loughlin to your Itinerary

  13. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    8 Feb 2026Open 20:00 -

    Vaseem Khan turns his eyes from his vibrant Mumbai to explore with Frank Gardner the wild world of Frank’s ex-commando Luke Carlton. Frank is the BBC’s Security Correspondent but there is nothing secure about Carlton’s high risk world. It’s live and…

    Add Bloody Barnes: Frank Gardner with Vaseem Khan to your Itinerary

  14. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    8 Feb 2026Open 18:00 -

    Add Bloody Barnes: Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger with Harriett Gilbert to your Itinerary

  15. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    8 Feb 2026Open 14:00 -

    Tom Mead in discussion with the kick ass queens of detection.

    Add Bloody Barnes: S.J. Bennet and Vanessa O’Loughlin with Tom Mead to your Itinerary

  16. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    6 Mar 2026Open 13:00 -

    Fuel your love of reading! Join our monthly Book Club to meet fellow bookworms, explore a diverse ranges of novels and share your thoughts over a cup of coffee in our cosy Café.

    A civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new…

    Add OSO Book Club 2026: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley to your Itinerary

  17. Address

    OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, London, SW13 0LF

    Telephone

    02088769885

    Barnes

    Dates

    From:
    10 Apr 2026Open 13:00 -

    Fuel your love of reading! Join our monthly Book Club to meet fellow bookworms, explore a diverse ranges of novels and share your thoughts over a cup of coffee in our cosy Café.

    Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends who ordinarily…

    Add OSO Book Club 2026: Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession to your Itinerary

  18. Address

    Twickenham Library, Garfield Road, Twickenham, London, TW1 3JT

    Telephone

    02087343328

    Twickenham

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2025to17 Dec 2025Various Opening Times

    Find comfort and connection through great literature.

    Our weekly Page Turner sessions, delivered in partnership with The Reader. Come along to one of our friendly, relaxing Shared Reading sessions, led by an experienced Reader Leader.

    Add Page Turners to your Itinerary

  19. Address

    Arts Richmond, ETNA Community Centre, 13 Rosslyn Road, Twickenham, London, TW1 2AR

    Telephone

    02088929446

    13 Rosslyn Road, Twickenham

    Dates

    From:
    27 Oct 2025to5 Dec 2025Open 09:00 - 12:30

    Arts Richmond Young Writers Festival is open to all young people who either live or attend schools or clubs in the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. It is a chance to demonstrate writing skills, specifically short stories or poems.

    Add Arts Richmond Young Writers Competition to your Itinerary

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