Pickering Book Tree

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Email shop@pickeringbooktree.co.uk
Website https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk

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  • Hawthorn Book Club: July 2026

    Hawthorn Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Thursday book club is on 16th July when we’ll discuss The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson. The book was shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and described by Cariad Lloyd on judging this year’s prize as “a beautiful and tender portrait of what it takes to leave where you’ve come from and forge your own future”, while fellow judge Salma El-Wardany said that “from the very first page I knew The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson was exceptional”.

    Free – £9.90

  • Oak Book Club: August 2026

    Oak Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Monday book club is on 3rd August when we’ll discuss winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. “The year's breakout novel no one saw coming” (Wall Street Journal) was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick and a Times Book of the Year, who praised it as “a warm, funny gem of a novel”.

    Free – £9.00

  • Hawthorn Book Club: August 2026

    Hawthorn Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Thursday book club is on 13th August when we’ll discuss The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick of the Summer and Sunday Times Bestseller. The Times said that “Laura Shepherd-Robinson takes delight in pulling the rug out from under her readers' feet . . . in this cleverly structured and consistently enjoyable novel”.

    Free – £9.00

  • Oak Book Club: September 2026

    Oak Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Monday book club is on 7th September when we’ll discuss Helm by Sarah Hall, a wondrous, elemental novel from “a writer of show-stopping genius” (the Guardian). The book was a Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Independent and BBC Book of the Year and described as “a truly astonishing thing” by George Monbiot, “pulsing with life and lyricism” by the Spectator, and “delightfully playful” by Andrew Miller.

    Free – £9.00

  • Hawthorn Book Club: September 2026

    Hawthorn Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Thursday book club is on 17th September when we’ll discuss Devotions by Lucy Caldwell, a “profoundly intimate” collection (Tahmima Anam) which is “powerful, compelling and richly crafted” (Mary Costello) from “one of our best short story writers” (The Times).

    Free – £10.00

  • Oak Book Club: October 2026

    Oak Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Monday book club is on 5th October when we’ll discuss Room 706 by Ellie Levenson, a novel described as “poignant, heart-breaking and utterly human” (Joanna Cannon) with “an ending that demands to be talked about” (Erin Kelly). We’re revisiting this gripping locked room drama following a thought provoking discussion with Ellie when we welcomed her to the Book Tree earlier in the year. This is a great chance to explore the book whether or not you were at the author event!

    Free