Join us for this free event to celebrate the Book Bingo Reading Challenge

In Conversation with Kiley Dunbar at Alcester Library

Aimee Hawkins (Reader Development Librarian) will be interviewing Kiley Dunbar about her writing and novels. There will be an opportunity for the audience to ask Kiley questions at the end.

This session is great for:

Hearing directly from the author about their influences, writing process, and behind-the-scenes stories.

Gaining creative inspiration and writing tips from an experienced author.

Meeting like-minded book enthusiasts.

This event is part of our series for the 2027 Book Bingo reading challenge (https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/bookbingo).

Why not take a book home after the event? You'll enjoy a great read, and it's a simple way to support your library. Every loan counts.

The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday

The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop for a fortnight.

Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop.

Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).

Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.

Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She's just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.

Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks is non-refundable.

Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.

But there's one problem six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who's also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks

As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from and why he's hiding out in Clove Lore.

Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale?

About the author

Kiley Dunbar is the author of 16 heartwarming romance novels about love, community and change-making. She is Scottish but has lived all over England including Alcester and Stratford-upon-Avon (where she was a tour guide for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust). She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University (where she uses her real name Dr Kirsty Bunting), and has been married to Nic for 26 years and has two children. Kiley writes the bestselling Borrow a Bookshop Holiday series and the Highland Repair Shop series and her books have been translated into many European languages and shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel Award.

Time: 10am - 11am

Date: Friday 12th February 2027

Age: Adults 16+

Booking: Booking essential

Refreshments: Free refreshments available

Book Sales: Books will be available to purchase at the event

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About Warwickshire Libraries

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