Upcoming Author Events & Readings
11 upcoming author events and readings from Barnes & Noble Hingham, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 10 · 1:00pm
Sean Foy signs his debut psychological thriller The Grotesque, long-listed for the Cheshire Novel Prize, in which a man sets out to reconcile the childhood memory of his mother's murder by reenacting the crime. Literary Titan wrote that "the writing has a raw, abrasive energy." Foy, also an award-winning filmmaker, was born in Defiance, Ohio, raised mainly in Pennsylvania and now lives in Massachusetts.
Sun Oct 11 · 12:00pm
Vincent "Vinnie" Quealy signs Reflections of an Irish Grandson, his account of his grandmother Bridget Meade, one of fourteen children raised on a tenant farm in Miltown Malbay, County Clare, who arrived alone in Boston aboard the SS Saxonia in 1909. Quealy, born in Boston in 1953, is a 1975 Boston College graduate involved with its Ireland Business Council, and lives in Scituate.
Wed Oct 14 · 6:00pm
MrBallen, the former Navy SEAL whose YouTube channel and podcast retell strange, dark and mysterious true stories, meets readers and poses for photos to mark MrBallen Presents: The Terror Within: The Graphic Stories. Born John B. Allen in Quincy, he was wounded by a grenade in Afghanistan, retired from the Navy in 2017 and rose to fame on TikTok in 2020 with a story about the Dyatlov Pass incident.
Sat Oct 17 · 1:00pm
Andrew and Mark Chauppetta sign Troy's Number 23: The Legacy Rolls On, a children's book in which Andrew carries on his late brother Troy's Number 23, keeping his spirit alive with every roll of the ball. The store describes it as "a tribute to friendship, perseverance, teamwork, and the opportunities that adaptive sports create for individuals with disabilities," introducing young readers to Power Wheelchair Soccer.
Sun Oct 18 · 2:00pm
Jenn Bouchard signs Palms on the Cape, a novel about Rachel Sinclair, who is about to turn forty and runs an upscale Cape Cod beach bar with a chosen family of staff and friends, including Carlos, whom she may love. When a Vermont business-school group called the A-List plans to take over her business, she must decide whether to join forces with an unlikely ally.
Sat Oct 24 · 1:00pm
Elin Hilderbrand signs The Thoroughbreds, a novel written with her daughter Shelby Cunningham and set at Tiffin Academy, where the senior class is in a season of college applications and "last hurrahs," and questions hang over an email a student sent before she died. Hilderbrand, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, is best known for her Nantucket novels. Tickets include a signed, personalized copy.
Fri Oct 30 · 10:30am
Two Massachusetts picture-book authors lead a storytime, then sign. Amanda Davis's new Chasing the Light, illustrated by Faryn Hughes, follows a mother and daughter who play “a game of hide and seek with the Northern Lights” on a winter night. Megan Litwin, a former classroom teacher with a master's in children's literature from Simmons, wrote Twinkle, Twinkle, Winter Night, a winter twist on the nursery rhyme.
Sun Nov 1 · 1:00pm
Kathleen Carr Foster signs her debut novel, The Jewel of Corlivo, set “in a reimagined Byzantine empire.” Anna, raised to be a courtesan in mountain-ringed Corlivo like her vanished mother, catches the eye of Sebastianus, an explorer who thinks she has found a clue to a lost city of treasure in an ancient book. They flee to the imperial court, where Anna uncovers a secret tied to her mother's fate.
Sat Nov 7 · 1:00pm
Michael Carini signs Tyler Madison and the Secret of Washington's Treasure, an adventure novel in which Tyler inherits a pocket watch from his grandfather, a former president. The watch has passed through the hands of every commander in chief since John Adams, and the secret it carries leads Tyler and his friends into the White House, an ancient secret society and the buried truth about George Washington.
Sun Nov 8 · 11:00am
Mark Epstein signs Cape Dreams: A Season with the Brewster Whitecaps, his account of the team's 2024 summer in the 101-year-old Cape Cod Baseball League. Epstein followed the club all season under manager Jamie Shevchik, writing about players, coaches, volunteers and host families. He spent nearly 30 years in the Charleston County School District, and the book was chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame's 2026 Author Series.
Wed Nov 18 · 6:00pm
Carter Wilson discusses his new thriller, When They Find Me, in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan, then signs. Wilson is the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of eleven standalone psychological thrillers, among them Tell Me What You Did and Mister Tender's Girl. Ryan, an on-air investigative journalist with 37 Emmys, has written 17 thrillers; All This Could Be Yours won the 2026 Mary Higgins Clark Award.
