Events
Mar 7 Thu
Crime Spree Ticket
This 'Crime Spree' pass entitles you to all 4 events in Hungerford Bookshop's Crime Season. March 7: Orenda Crime Roadshow (Herongate Auditorium, 7:30) April 9: Graeme Sheppard - Death in Peking (Hungerford Hub/Library, 7:30) May 14: The Savernake Novels -…
Apr 20 Sat
Classical Young Musicians Concert
Join us for the latest in our series of Classical Young Musicians’ concerts. These events have really gathered momentum over the past two or three years, providing a valuable performance platform for some of the area’s most talented young players.…
Apr 24 Wed
Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners
Churchill's Secret Prisoners tells the previously suppressed story of fifteen British prisoners captured during the Russian civil war. The book explains how the bitter fighting ebbed and flowed along the Trans-Siberian Railway for eighteen months, until Trotsky's Red Army prevailed.…
Apr 26 Fri
Cold War - Film
An impossible love story There is something both haunting and devastating about Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, which is set in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. Filmed entirely in stylish black and white, the film describesan atmospheric, tense and achingly…
May 3 Fri
Funny Cow - Film
Compelling British drama Maxine Peake dominates the screen as starof this tough, streetwise film about a fictional female club comedienne fighting her way to the top, or at least to the middle. Set in 1970s Britain, when sexism and racism…
May 4 Sat
Leonid Gorokhov
International star visits Hungerford! Renowned Russian cellist Leonid Gorokhovwill present an exciting programme including works by Chopin and Poulenc. A graduate of the Rimsky-Korsokov Conservatoire, Leonid’s talent has been long internationally recognised with competition successes including the Concertino Praga, the…
May 9 Thu
The Doll Factory: Elizabeth MacNeal talks about her novel The Doll Factory
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is the intoxicating story of a young woman who aspires to be an artist, and the man whose obsession may destroy her world for ever. London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in…
May 14 Tue
The Savernake Novels - Susanna M. Newstead
The Savernake Novels – Susanna M. Newstead The author of the Savernake Novels (5 in total) will be talking about her writing and the inspiration behind her books which are set at the end of the twelfth century, locally in…
May 17 Fri
Leave No Trace - Film
Uplifting and sometimes heartbreaking Will suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from his time in the military. He cannot function in society, so for years he has lived quietly in the forests of Oregon with his 13-year-old daughter Thomasina. The film…
May 22 Wed
Andrew Taylor book talk: Marwood & Lovett Restoration Crime series
Winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger (for lifelong excellence in the genre) and the triple winner of the Historical Dagger, Andrew Taylor has published over 45 books. They include the international bestseller, The American Boy (a Richard and Judy…
