Events 2025
Francesca Segal
In Conversation
7pm Wednesday 4th June 2025
at The Little Ripon Bookshop
12-13 Westgate, Ripon HG4 2AT
This is a thrilling opportunity for Ripon - Francesca Segal is the 2012 Costa winning author of The Innocents and she is coming to The Little Ripon Bookshop on 4th June to talk about her new paperback which is called Welcome to Glorious Tuga (and it will be our book club book for June 2025), and her new hardback, Island Calling.
Tickets are on sale in the bookshop at £5
or online (booking fees apply)
Terry Deary
Tuesday 17th June 2025
at The Ripon Arts Hub
49A Allhallowgate,
Ripon HG4 1LQ
Terry Deary is one of the UK’s most successful authors and creator of The Horrible Histories series. Now he turns his irreverent, creative and witty pen to writing a murder mystery! This event is for grown ups!
About Actually I’m a Murderer:
A hilarious and whip-smart crime novel by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories. The perfect mystery for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Robert Thorogood and Ian Moore.
Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction: 'Actually, I'm a murderer.'
It is 1973 and the lives of four people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with glasses, on the night train back to Newcastle. By the end of the following day, one of them will be dead, one will turn blackmailer and another forced to commit a crime. And all of them will be under the astute observation of Aline, the local police officer with her own agenda to fulfil.
When the body count begins to rise, the question is: just how many murderers are out there... and who will be the next victim?
Authors
Lisette Auton * Annaliese Avery * Marie Basting* Mike Edwards * Alex Foulkes
James Harris * Jack Jackman * Siobhan McDermott * Jason Rohan
Gabrielle Sheworak * Tom Vaughan * Bethany Walker
The Great North Author Tour 2025
4:00pm - 4:45pm
Saturday 21st June 2025
at The Little Ripon Bookshop
12-13 Westgate, Ripon HG4 2AT
More children’s authors than you can comfortably fit in a minibus (probably 12) will be arriving in Ripon at 4pm and spending 45 minutes at the bookshop talking about their books and meeting children and parents. The event is FREE so please come along.
M W Craven
Friday 26th September 2025
at Valentino’s Restaurant
14 Westgate, Ripon HG4 2AT
We are so excited to be featuring M W Craven in our Morning Coffee with Crime series in Ripon. M W Craven is one of Simon’s favourite crime and thriller writers and Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw are a crime fighting tour de force. The Final Vow is the latest of these clever, twisty, intricately plotted, humorous and deeply satisfying novels following on from The Botanist which won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 and most recently The Mercy Chair. Mike has visited the shop before but we’ve never managed to get him to do an event until now. Tickets £10 for admission and coffee/tea and pastry, and £20 for admission, coffee, tea, pastry and a copy of The Final Vow (RRP £20) are now on sale in the bookshop and online - click on the button below (booking fees apply)
We have lots more author events lined up for 2025 so keep an eye on this page or send us your email address so we can let you know once the details are finalised.