Events
Browse our upcoming events!
Browse our upcoming events!
Wake up, babe! It’s ACOTAR 6 release day! To celebrate, we’re opening early. Come pick up your copy, grab a pastry and a hot drink, and stay for a natter if you have the time.
Event date and time: Tuesday 27th October, 8am-9am.
Location: Love Stories Bookshop (36-38 Castle Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1BW)
Ticket options: To make sure the bookshop doesn’t get too crowded, we’re designating timeslots for collection. Please don’t arrive before your chosen time. Your ticket includes your copy of the book, a pastry from a local bakery, and as much tea or coffee as you can guzzle down before you have to head off!
Join us for an afternoon of crafting! On the third Saturday of each month, from 2:30-4pm, we run our ‘Saturday Crafternoon’ club, each month trying out a new crafting project. Our craft club is designed for beginners (we’re no experts, we just like trying new things!), so no artistic skill is necessary.
In October, we are trying: Painting a mini-dresser (ACOTAR inspired)!
Please note that this event takes place on the first floor of our shop, which is only accessible via a staircase. Please note, our events are recommended for attendees aged 18+.
Join us for an evening of painting to celebrate the release of Undone by Peyton Corrine! We’re going to trying our hand at painting The Starry Night by van Gough, and chatting about our love for this book series!
Event date and time: Thursday 22nd October, 6:30-8pm
Location: Love Stories Bookshop (36-38 Castle Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1BW)
Your ticket includes a copy of the book, and all painting supplies!
This event will take place on the first floor of the bookshop, which is only accessible via a set of stairs.
Please note: Tickets can be refunded up to one week before the event. Our events are recommended for attendees aged 18+.
It’s Christmas in October! Join us for an in-person event with author Julia Boggio to celebrate the release of All I Want for Christmas Is Hugh! Julia will be chatting with one of our booksellers about festive reads, finding love in unexpected places and, of course, which is the best Hugh Grant film.
Event date and time: Friday 30th October, 7pm
Location: Love Stories Bookshop (36-38 Castle Arcade, CF10 1BW)
Ticket options:
Event ticket: £3.00
Book + ticket: £9.99
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
If you choose the book + ticket option, your copy of All I Want for Christmas Is Hugh will be available to collect at the venue before the event begins.
Please note: Tickets can be refunded up to one week before the event. Our events are recommended for attendees aged 18+.
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About All I Want for Christmas Is Hugh:
When Henrietta Whitaker moves from New Jersey to the beautiful cobbled streets of Chelsea, it is with one goal; to find the Englishman of her dreams and live out her very own rom-com.
Henrietta grew up obsessing over 90's movies, especially those starring the quintessential British actor Hugh Grant. Now she's fully convinced that what she needs in her life is her own floppy-haired Brit. With his eloquent speech, sparkling wit and gentlemanly manners, what girl wouldn't want to date a man like that?
In her local café Henrietta sets eyes on Albert – outrageously dapper and irresistibly charming – and knows that her dreams are coming true. But before she has the chance to sweep Albert off his feet, in lopes a gruff American man – from New Jersey, no less – who seems intent on stealing all of her attention and throwing her rulebook for the perfect romance right out the window.
All I Want for Christmas is Hugh is as funny and feel-good as any Richard Curtis movie. It's a glorious celebration of unlikely love affairs, British rom coms and the joy of finding love in unexpected places.
Join us for an afternoon of book bedazzling to celebrate the release of Isolde with the author, Phoenicia Rogerson!
Event date and time: Saturday 14th November, 11am-12:30pm
Location: Love Stories Bookshop (36-38 Castle Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1BW)
Your ticket includes a copy of the book, and all bedazzling supplies!
This event will take place on the first floor of the bookshop, which is only accessible via a set of stairs.
Please note: Tickets can be refunded up to one week before the event.
Synopsis:
Isolde, Queen of Cornwall, is on the run. She didn’t mean to drink a love potion with the king’s nephew, but that little accident has made her scandalously famous.
Luckily, she and Tristan find refuge in Camelot, the legendary court of King Arthur. This ought to be her happy ending. Only it isn’t.
She discovers that Camelot is full of chivalrous knights who aren’t sure how to speak to a woman, and while it houses the greatest wizard of all time, he might just be responsible for crimes against humanity. And one more thing, the love potion has worn off… Now Isolde will have to work out what sort of life a woman can carve out for herself when the songs about her have already been written. A tale of battered reputations, Isolde introduces an unforgettable heroine finding her way through myth, love and a world of magic.
Join us for an in-person event with author Stephanie Burgis to celebrate the paperback release of Enchanting the Fae Queen, chaired by Sangu Mandanna!
Event date and time: Wednesday 18th November, 7pm
Location: Oat and Bean (26 Park Pl, Cardiff CF10 3BA)
Ticket options:
Event ticket: £5.00
Book + ticket: £9.99
Copies of both authors books will be available for purchase at the event.
If you choose the book + ticket option, your copy of Enchanting the Fae Queen will be available to collect at the venue before the event begins.
Please note: Tickets can be refunded up to one week before the event. Our events are recommended for attendees aged 18+.
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About Enchanting the Fae Queen:
A seductive fae queen meets her unexpected match in the enemy empire’s valiant general. Enchanting the Fae Queen is the second instalment in Stephanie Burgis' irreverent and sparkling Queens of Villainy series. Queen Lorelei is a notorious fae seductress, with a trail of broken hearts in her wake.
But behind her glamorous lifestyle and sparkling mask lurks a dangerously intelligent woman who’d do anything to keep her people safe, even kidnap the empire’s most famous hero. The virtuous high general Gerard de Moireul represents all that is moral and true. He has to – after his parents were executed for treason.
The last thing he needs is the Queen of Balravia, who showers glitter and rainbow-colored sparkles everywhere she goes without the slightest regard for good taste, decorum or royal dignity. They’re opposites in every way, but when they’re swept up together in a grand - and deadly - fae tournament, they discover all of each other’s most hidden truths - and how perfectly they might be suited for each other after all.
Calling all Shadowhunters! Join us for an evening of book bedazzling to celebrate the release of The Last King of Faerie by Cassandra Clare!
Event date and time: Friday 6th November, 6:30-8pm
Location: Love Stories Bookshop (36-38 Castle Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1BW)
Your ticket includes a copy of the book, and all bedazzling supplies!
This event will take place on the first floor of the bookshop, which is only accessible via a set of stairs.
Please note: Tickets can be refunded up to one week before the event. Our events are recommended for attendees aged 18+.
Join us for an in-person event with author Anna Fiteni to celebrate the release of The Cursed Fate of Sabrina Parry, chaired by Catrin Cadogan!
Event date and time: Thursday 5th November, 7pm
Location: Love Stories Bookshop (36-38 Castle Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1BW)
Ticket options:
Event ticket: £3.00
Book + ticket: £9.99
Copies of both authors books will be available for purchase at the event.
If you choose the book + ticket option, your copy of The Cursed Fate of Sabrina Parry will be available to collect at the venue before the event begins.
Please note: Tickets can be refunded up to one week before the event. Our events are recommended for attendees aged 18+.
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Synopsis for The Cursed Fate of Sabrina Parry:
Habren Faire saved the fairies. But Sabrina Parry will not be rewarded for it.
Sabrina doesn't live with the fairies. She visits, travelling with borrowed magic and her iron sword, and she has no intention of staying. She has places to be and centuries to travel through.
But when an ancient white dragon begins burning the villages of Gwlad y Tylwyth Teg to the ground, Sabrina's family is in the firing line. The fairy king is nowhere to be found, and Sabrina hasn’t heard from Neirin in months. Someone has to do something.
The problem is, saving the realm the second time around is considerably more complicated than the first. The fairy court is a nest of scheming lords and murderous ambitions, each one watching Sabrina as closely as they're watching the empty throne. And her father – brilliant, but infuriating – is already organising the villagers for a fight she isn't sure they can win.
As the King's Champion, the people look to Sabrina for answers she doesn't have, in a political game she never agreed to play, on behalf of a crown she doesn't want to represent. All she has is her iron sword, a very bad plan, and the stubborn conviction that someone has to stand between a dragon and the people of the Summer Lands. It might as well be her.
Get ready to once again lose yourself in the mystical Welsh world of Habren Faire, where danger, political intrigue and romance await you
Welcome to Happily Ever After, our general romance book club!
Each month, the Love Stories Bookshop team choose a romance book to read and discuss as part of our book club.
What do we read? Romance across all genres; contemporary, dark, fantasy, LGBTQ+ - if it has a love story then we’re in!
When do we meet? On the third Wednesday of the month at our bookshop, from 6-7pm
Ticket includes a copy of the book. Once your place has been secured, book club books will be available to collect in-store. Spaces are limited!
Our book for October is: Grim Tidings by BK Borison
Welcome to Enemies to (book) Lovers, our fantasy romance book club!
Each month, the Love Stories Bookshop team choose a romance book to read and discuss as part of our book club.
What do we read? Fantasy romance books - think dragons, swords, fae, and magic!
When do we meet? On the second Saturday of the month at the bookshop, from 2-3pm
Our book for November is: Under the Iron Sky by AT Emerald
Ticket includes a copy of the book. Once your place has been secured, book club books will be available to collect in-store. Spaces are limited!
Please note, this book club will be run on the first floor of our bookshop, where a staircase is the only means of access
Welcome to Morally Grey, our dark romance book club!
Each month, the Love Stories Bookshop team choose a romance book to read and discuss as part of our book club.
What do we read? Dark romance - think spice, taboo, dubious consent and, of course, morally grey characters.
When do we meet? On the fourth Saturday of the month at our bookshop, from 2-3pm
Our book for October is: Nocticadia by Keri Lake
Ticket includes a copy of the book. Once your place as been secured, book club books will be available to collect in-store. Spaces are limited!
Please note, this book club will be run on the first floor of our bookshop, where a staircase is the only means of access
Welcome to Friends of Dorothy, our LGBTQ+ romance book club!
Each month, the Love Stories Bookshop team choose a romance book to read and discuss as part of our book club.
What do we read? LGBTQ+ romance - if it has a queer love story in it, we’re in!
When do we meet? On the first Wednesday of the month at our bookshop, from 6-7pm
Our book for November is: Bellies by Nicola Dinan
Ticket includes a copy of the book. Once your place as been secured, book club books will be available to collect in-store. Spaces are limited!
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