The sun is out this April and so are Hungerford Bookshop’s star authors Susie Dent and Al Murray

The sun is out this April and so are the star authors at The Hungerford Bookshop!

On Sunday (April 13), Countdown’s Queen of Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent is in conversation at The Watermill a collaborative fundraising event with The Hungerford Bookshop. You can hear Susie talk about her debut crime novel Guilty By Definition, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and the Rev Richard Coles.

When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year.

For Martha Thornhill, the new senior editor, the date can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant older sister Charlie went missing…

Gyles Brandreth says the book is “Huge fun and, as you’d expect, also beautifully written.”

Susie will also be talking about her time on Countdown and her previous books.She will be signing copies of her books after the event. It’s guaranteed to be an entertaining evening!

The fun starts at 6pm and tickets are available exclusively from the theatre box office: www.watermill.org.uk

Then on Wednesday (April 16) at 7pm, Sunday Times bestselling author Rachel Joyce will be at Croft Hall, Hungerford to talk about her new book The Homemade God:

There is a heatwave across Europe.

Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead and there is no sign of a painting.

Although the siblings have always been close, as they search for answers over that summer, the things they learn - about themselves, their father and their new stepmother - will drive them apart before they can come to any kind of understanding of what their father's legacy truly is.

Rachel Joyce is the multi-million selling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (now a film starring Jim Broadbent) and Miss Benson’s Beetle amongst others. She will be in conversation with broadcaster Hannah MacInnes. Tickets are selling fast and are available from Eventbrite or from the Hungerford Bookshop.

And, last but not least, at the end of April, comedian and history fan Al Murray and bestselling author James Holland, hosts of the hugely popular podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk will be in conversation from 7pm on Monday, April 28 at The Herongate Club talking about their new book Victory ’45 a fascinating look at the end of the Second World War in eight surrenders. Each chapter follows one event from the viewpoints of a number of key characters from generals and politicians to ordinary servicemen and women and civilians.

Tickets for their event have been hugely popular but there are some left! They are available from Eventbrite or The Hungerford Bookshop.

For information and tickets for all these events, search by individual event or ‘The Hungerford Bookshop’ on Eventbrite or pop into their shop on the High Street in Hungerford and chat to one of their friendly booksellers.

There are lots more book events coming through the rest of the year in Hungerford shop and in their sister shop in Wantage, so watch this space or sign up to the bookshop’s newsletter at hungerfordbookshop.co.uk