Reviewing the papers on BBC Radio Surrey & Sussex

Tune in to BBC Radio Surrey between 1-2pm on Tuesday the 11th December as I will be reviewing the papers with Joe Talbot.

Signing The Love Detective

WH Smith Richmond

Saturday 15th December
16-17 George Street
Richmond
Richmond Upon Thames
TW9 1JY

‘The Love Detective’: Angela Dyson Book Signing

The Bookshop East Grinstead

Wednesday 19th December, from 10am
The Bookshop
22 High St
East Grinstead
RH19

Angela Dyson signing The Love Detective

Bartons Bookshop

Saturday the 22nd December 10am – 3.30pm
2 Bridge Street
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 8BZ

I will be signing copies of The Love Detective at this wonderful independent, family run bookshop in Leatherhead in the run up to Christmas!

The Love Detective book signing

The Rye Bookshop

Saturday 2nd February
25 High Street
Rye
TN31 7JF

The Love Detective Book Signing

Waterstones Swansea

12 noon on Saturday 23rd February
The Old Carlton Cinema
17 Oxford St
Swansea
SA1 3AG

An evening with Angela Dyson

Urmston Bookshop Manchester

Thursday 28th February 
72 Flixton Road
Manchester
M41 5AB

Past Events

Angela Dyson signing The Love Detective

WH Smiths Wimbledon

Saturday 29th September
WH Smiths Wimbledon
Centre Court Shopping Centre
Wimbledon Railway Station
Station Road
London
SW19 8YA

Vivienne and I had such a successful day at WH Smiths Wimbledon that they invited me back for another half day session on the Sunday! Delighted to tell you we sold 79 copies of The Love Detective, a feat the WH Smiths managers said was quite unheard of! They kindly emailed some other branches so I have been booked at their Wimbledon store and am hopeful to be booked in at more as Christmas approaches. What was especially lovely was a lady who bought The Love Detective on Saturday saw me on Sunday and came in the shop to tell me she was on chapter 10 and absolutely loving it. Really did make my day!

Interview on BBC Radio Surrey & Sussex

Listen to me being interviewed on the radio! I was on the BBC Surrey and Sussex afternoon show on Tuesday 2nd October from 14:40 and had the most wonderful time. Do have a listen below!

An evening with Angela Dyson

Waterstones Dorking

6pm Friday 5th October
Waterstones Dorking
3-5 South St
Dorking
RH4 2DY

My darling actor sister Claire and I read extracts from The Love Detective and in conversation and it was a HUGE success! We sold out of books! 37 people attended.

My sister, actor Claire Dyson and I acted out some of the highly comedic extracts from the novel (I played Clarry and Claire played Flan) – the result was much laughter and exchanges with the audience.

You can’t beat ice-cold prosecco in delicate champagne flutes served with a flourish by two lovely waitresses wearing The Love Detective sky-blue baseball caps. The delicious fresh canapes were a treat too! All enjoyed along with the scent of beautiful fresh freesias in vintage blue vases.

Very lively Q & A session. I was asked not simply about the process of writing my novel but about my feelings whilst working on it and afterwards seeing it for the first time in print.

Huge age range – youngest person present was 18 years old and the oldest was 83 – talk about intergenerational! A particular pleasure to me given that my heroine Clarry is 26 and her side-kick, Flan, is 70.

One lady was so immersed in the drama that she’d forgotten she still had her champagne flute in her hand and it crashed to the floor! Another woman said to me that she was so caught up in the story as I was reading a particularly dramatic suspenseful section of the novel that she didn’t want me to stop!

To be supported not just by friends and family but by the strangers who came and who enjoyed themselves so much that they bought more than one copy of the novel.

As I signed the last copy the realization hit me that now The Love Detective has a life of its own. Copies of my novel will be on someone’s bedside cabinet, in someone’s sitting room open on the table beside a glass of wine, in someone’s  handbag as they get on the train to work – and my hope for all those that read my novel is that it offers a brief escape from the day-to-day stresses of life and a chance for the spirit to revive and feel refreshed.

Angela Dyson signing The Love Detective

WH Smiths Richmond

Saturday 13th October
WH Smiths Richmond
16 – 17 George Street
Richmond
Greater London
TW9 1JS

Delighted to report I had a very successful day at WH Smiths Richmond, managing to sell out of copies!

Review of the papers BBC Surrey

On Thursday 18th October I had a wonderful time reviewing the papers with Joe Talbot on BBC Radio Surrey.

Angela Dyson signing

Waterstones Wimbledon

12pm onwards Saturday 20th October
Waterstones Wimbledon
40/42 The Broadway
Wimbledon
London
SW19 1RQ

I had a great day at Waterstones Wimbledon, selling out of The Love Detective and meeting wonderful people.

The Love Detective signing

Waterstones Berkhamsted

11am onwards Saturday 27th October
168 High St
Berkhamsted
HP4 3AP

It was another sell out day at the lovely Waterstones Berkhamsted! Many thanks to Sally and Rowan for making me so welcome in your charmingly friendly market town and sorry not to have met manager Matt. I did get to meet a wonderful lady who’d spent much of her life as choreographer for a ballet company, as well as a beautiful Golden retriever and a lovely lady heading on holiday to Mauritius the following day who had just had a pedicure and so was wearing flip-flops in the first cold weather we’ve had for months!

The Love Detective signing

Waterstones Epsom

Saturday 3rd November from 11am
50 High St
Epsom
KT19 8AJ

Yet another sell out day meeting the most wonderful people. I could get used to this!

Angela Dyson signing

Waterstones Carlisle

11am – 3pm Saturday 10th November
Waterstones Carlisle
66-68 Scotch Street
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA3 8PN

Angela Dyson signing The Love Detective

WHSmith Kingston

Thursday 15th, Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November!
Unit L8, G13 & G14 The Bentall Centre
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey
KT1 1TR

Great 3 days signing copies of The Love Detective at WH Smith Kingston. I met a very pleasant middle-aged belly-dancer, two lovely girls who had just started the Bananarama Reading Group, a very elegant lady who looked just like my character Flan and an astrophysicist! One woman came up to me and told me that her Book Club are reading The Love Detective in January! There was a  stressful 5 minutes when I joined the hunt for a missing child. Thankfully he was found safe and well in a corner playing with some lego. Much relief all around!

The Love Detective book signing as Christmas begins!

WH Smith Richmond

Thursday November 22th from 3pm
16 – 17 George Street
Richmond
Greater London
TW9 1JS

I had a wonderful day in Richmond holding a book signing as Christmas festivities started gearing up!

Angela Dyson signing

Harpenden Books

10.30am onwards on Saturday 24th November
48 High St
Harpenden
AL5 2SX

I had another sell out day in Harpenden Books. Huge thanks to Ines and Diana who welcomed me so warmly!

Appearing in my home town as Christmas kicks off!

Waterstones Dorking

Sunday November 25th from 11am
3-5 South St
Dorking
RH4 2DY

A sell out day once again in my home town of Dorking!

‘The Love Detective’: Angela Dyson Book Signing

The Bookshop East Grinstead

Saturday 1st December, from 10am
The Bookshop
22 High St
East Grinstead
RH19

Had the most wonderful sell-out day at The Bookshop East Grinstead signing copies of The Love Detective. I was made so welcome by the charming owner, John, and his wonderful manageress Sarah!

The Love Detective book signing

WHSmith Wimbledon

Saturday 8th December, all day
Wimbledon Railway Station
Station Road
London
SW19 7NL

Another fantastic day at WH Smith Wimbledon where I sold 63 copies of The Love Detective. Once again, I was made very welcome by Ashley’s team. And many congratulations to Ash on the birth of his daughter! Delighted to meet a French au pair who bought it for her Wimbledon House Mother, a lady who bought one as a Secret Santa and to a woman whose Christmas Philosophy I could only but admire: For every present she bought for someone else, she added one for herself!