Red Lion Books

06/09/2026

INVASION COLCHESTER ACE Comics St Helena Mid and North East Essex Mind

06/09/2026

Perhaps you like the cover? Have you read it?

Lily King “Heart the Lover”

Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games.

Their lives became quickly intertwined - with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love. Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.

04/09/2026

2027 new Natalie Haynes

Finally! Something to look forward to in 2027 🥰

In Irresistible Monsters, beloved author, broadcaster and passionate classicist Natalie Haynes turns her inimitable gaze on the strange and terrible creatures of Greek myths have been grabbing our attention for thousands of years.

We will have signed copies (already up on our website or email [email protected]

02/09/2026

02/09/2026

SIGNED Ottolenghi with a free gift :-)

01/09/2026

Five minutes just for you!

31/08/2026

Phone a (book)friend

Have you heard? AK BLAKEMORE, Author of has written a spectacular new novel, DOOM PAINTING Based in Essex, published September 24th 2026

1381. England, reeling from plague and years of conflict abroad, is a tinderbox waiting to spark.

Two childhood friends ride into the town of Brentwood, Essex, where they come upon an altercation with a local Justice bent on squeezing more coin from the masses. Thus begins a rebellion of the common folk - loyal to the king, but not to those wealthy landowners who curtail their freedoms; the multitude finding cause against the powers that threaten their livelihoods. Set over sixteen days, Doom Painting roves across England as the revolt grows and swells and the rebels march to London to take their demands to the child-king Richard II.

Out of the rebellion emerges its enigmatic and charismatic leader Wat Tyler, an opportunistic and mercurial rogue whose morality is birthed by the cause, and who shapes an identity for the English which has never been lost. A. K.

Blakemore’s thrilling retelling of the Peasants’ Revolt renders it a definitive moment in British history. In the meeting of peasantry and nobility, new versions of England are born, and - for one bloody summer - the people of England seize control.


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30/08/2026

This is how Summer ends! ☀️✨🧋

The last Sunday of any month is Cocoa day, and this month’s meeting was incredibly fun as we got to chat and discuss Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Alas, no midnight margaritas but plenty of iced coffee and biscuits. We couldn’t think of a better way to close out our summer sessions. We look forward to entering our Autumnal season with Victorian Psycho.

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Alice Hoffman

29/08/2026