Upcoming Events At The Book Nook

The Book Nook is extra excited to welcome one of our favourite authors! Adele Parks is author of 25 bestselling novels, including the recent Sunday Times bestsellers, Just Between Us and One Last Secret.

Over six million copies of her work have been sold in English, and her books have been translated into 31 languages.

Adele will be talking about her latest book ‘Eyes on You’

At 15, Amy witnessed her father brutally murder his secret lover. Her testimony sealed her father’s fate. With him in prison, Amy and her mother must rebuild their lives in the shadow of a notorious crime. Years later, Oliver Harrington walks into the restaurant where Amy works. Just like Amy, Oliver has a past he’d rather forget. Amy is drawn to him at a profound level; they feel a connection, an understanding… This seems a lot like love, but does it hide something darker – an obsession that could lead Amy into a web of deception and violence she thought she’d escaped? As the truth looms ever closer, Amy must confront a harsh reality: where there is love, there is often betrayal

Lin Anderson makes a welcome return to talk about her latest novel ‘The High Island’ which introducing the new Orcadia Mysteries series. This gripping Tartan-Noir offshoot of Lin Anderson’s acclaimed Rhona MacLeod series features the popular character of DI Erling Flett and is set in the Island of Hoy in the Orkneys.

On the rugged Isle of Hoy, a wealthy couple’s dream of building a stunning eco-home becomes a waking nightmare when the peat yields a grisly secret: the remains of a young mother and her baby.
For DI Erling Flett, the discovery is a personal haunting. He spent years running from Orkney, only to be pulled back to the islands he once fled. As he fights to identify the nameless dead, the community pushes back – and his own troubled history begins to surface.
At the heart of the mystery lies a lethal family feud over blood-soaked soil. Can Flett finally face the ghosts of his past? Or will the island claim its next victim before the truth is told?

World-leading environmental scientist and authority on climate change, Paul Hardisty is back at The Book Nook!

Paul Hardisty discusses The Hope” - the final book in his acclaimedclimate emergency thriller trilogy:
The Forcing, The Descent and The Hope

Paul E Hardisty lives in western Australia and has worked all over the world as an environmental scientist and writer.

His work has taken him to some of the world's most dangerous places, including Yemen, Ethiopia, and most recently Ukraine in 2022, 2024, and 2025 working on a new book about the war.

The Forcing, first book in his climate thriller series, was shortlisted for the Crime Fiction Lovers' Awards for 2023, and In Hot Water: Inside the Battle to Save the Great Barrier Reef, was shortlisted for the 2025 WA Premier's Award for non-fiction.

Join us for a special Christmas event with Scotland's bestselling cookbook author, and Book Nook regular guest, Coinneach MacLeod!
His new irresistible festive collection is packed with everything you need to create the ultimate
Scottish Christmas.
Brimming with seasonal recipes, this book is a celebration of tradition, warmth and Scottish hospitality. Whether you're stirring a rich Christmas pudding or toasting Hogmanay with a spiced winter cocktail, Hebridean Baker: A Scottish Christmas is your must-have guide to a winter filled with flavour, charm and a touch of Hebridean hygge - wherever you are in the world!
The Hebridean Baker has gathered together an array of dishes that capture the spirit of the season and the spirit of the season will be captured at this event!

The Book Nook is proud and thrilled to welcome Sir Ian Rankin, a global icon of crime fiction, to Stewarton.
Join us at The Book Nook for an unforgettable afternoon with Sir Ian Rankin as he introduces his gripping new novel,
The Heights.

The first standalone novel in nearly twenty years from one of the UK’s greatest storytellers.

The Heights is crime-thriller writing at its finest – topical, thought-provoking and eye-opening – and proves why Ian Rankin remains one of our greatest social commentators in British fiction. This is a novel of two London’s – one for the normal everyday people, and one for the global super-rich elites and speaks to the global picture of stark and growing inequalities across many cities.

What a fantastic event to close the 2026 Events programme at The Book Nook Stewarton!