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SUMMARY:Oak Book Club: October 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a welcoming book club to discuss the current novel and choose the next month’s read. \nWe meet on the first Monday of each month for a relaxed conversation\, sharing our thoughts in the friendly atmosphere amongst the bookshelves. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our upstairs event space. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nRoom 706 by Ellie Levenson\nAs tender as it is surprising… a gripping interrogation of womanhood — Sarah Jessica Parker  \nI devoured it… I haven’t stopped thinking about it — Jennie Godfrey \nNobody knows she’s checked into Room 706. \nCaught in the wrong place at precisely the worst time\, Kate must face the most confronting situation of her life – and discover what matters most – in this deeply suspenseful and thought-provoking novel. \nIf she knew it would end this way\, would it ever have begun? \nKate stretches her legs and turns on the TV while James washes away the traces of their morning. She watches in horror at the unfolding news: the hotel they are staying in has been taken under siege. \nShe should be making her way home\, working on appearing normal\, getting ready to re-enter family life with her loving husband Vic and their two adored children. Instead\, she is trapped somewhere she shouldn’t be\, with a man she definitely doesn’t love. \nHow will she begin to tell Vic what she is doing here? If her body is found\, will it give up the secret of what she’s been up to? She’s been so careful hiding the evidence of her affair: write nothing down\, leave no trace. Will he begin to understand why? \nFor now\, Kate can only hide\, take a deep breath\, and reflect on the series of choices she’s made that have brought her to this moment. \nWhat will her marriage and her life look like\, if she makes it out? \nDiscover the most gripping and original novel you’ll read this year\, from an incredible new talent in fiction. \nA love story wrapped in a grenade — Cecelia Ahern \nA tense\, riveting read about the unpredictable ripple effects luck and choices can have — Tracy Sierra \nI could not stop reading — Sarah Easter Collins
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/oak-club-october-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Meet at the Book Tree,Oak Club
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SUMMARY:Hawthorn Book Club: September 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Thursday book club! \nWe usually meet on the second Thursday of each month for a relaxed and friendly conversation about the current book. As there is an author event with Jack Jewers on the 10th September (find out more here)\, this month’s meeting will be the following week. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. Due to the higher RRP of September’s book there is an increased discount to bring the price down to £10. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nDevotions by Lucy Caldwell\nThe highly-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes\, Intimacies and Openings  \nExhilarating\, devastating\, comforting\, essential — Claire Kilroy \nA next-level author of short stories — The Herald \n‘There must be moments when we let go – let go of all that we do\, all that we are.’ \nA young Belfast theatre troupe brings its experimental production of Hamlet to New York. \nOn a night-flight\, travelling with a violin older than the United States\, a professional musician slips through time. \nA man who loses all he thought he had\, and finds himself haunted by all he never will\, comes to a painful new understanding of what it might mean to love. \nTransporting and profound\, these are stories of love\, grief\, longing\, of new beginnings\, and the ways we find shelter in each other. \nThese are stories which sing off the page — Jan Carson \n[Caldwell] holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters — Eimear McBride
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/hawthorn-club-september-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Hawthorn Club,Meet at the Book Tree
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260907T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260907T200000
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SUMMARY:Oak Book Club: September 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a welcoming book club to discuss the current novel and choose the next month’s read. \nWe meet on the first Monday of each month for a relaxed conversation\, sharing our thoughts in the friendly atmosphere amongst the bookshelves. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our upstairs event space. \nBook club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nHelm by Sarah Hall\nWinner of the Lakeland Book of the Year Award\nShortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize\, The Gordon Burn Prize and the Winston Graham Prize\nLonglisted for the Climate Fiction Prize and the Walter Scott Prize \nI can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills\, surprises and staggers — Benjamin Myers \nI’m awed. I wouldn’t think a novel could be at once so taut and so multifarious\, expanding one’s sense of what fiction can do — Sarah Moss  \nHelm is a ferocious\, mischievous wind – a subject of folklore and wonder – who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time. \nThis is Helm’s life story\, formed from the chronicles of those the wind enchanted: the Neolithic tribe who tried to placate it\, the Dark Age wizard priest who wanted to banish it\, the Victorian steam engineer who attempted to capture it – and the farmer’s daughter who fell in love. But now Dr Selima Sutar\, surrounded by measuring instruments\, alone in her observation hut\, fears the end is nigh. \nVital and audacious\, Helm is the elemental tale of a unique life force – and of a relationship: between nature and people\, neither of whom can weather life without the other. \nA big\, celebratory book\, in places delightfully playful\, in others as tight and breathless as a thriller — Andrew Miller \n[Hall] sweeps from the cinematic to the specific\, her prose pulsing with life and lyricism. Helm pushes both the boundaries of the novel and our relationship with nature — The Spectator
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/oak-club-september-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Meet at the Book Tree,Oak Club
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260813T200000
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SUMMARY:Hawthorn Book Club: August 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Thursday book club! \nWe meet on the second Thursday of each month for a relaxed and friendly conversation about the current book. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson\nAn Instant Sunday Times Bestseller\nA BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick of the Summer \nAstonishing. A rare and wonderful story — Chris Whitaker \nFiendishly clever and completely gripping — Jennie Godfrey \nLondon\, 1749. \nHannah Cole’s world shatters with her husband’s brutal murder. Her confectionery shop\, the Punchbowl and Pineapple\, teeters on the brink of ruin. \nJust as she uncovers a hidden fortune – money her husband secretly possessed – a new nightmare begins. \nMagistrate Henry Fielding\, the renowned author\, suspects illicit gains. To save her inheritance\, her shop and her very reputation\, Hannah must delve into her late husband’s secret life. But\, as she unearths a labyrinth of lies and deceit\, she finds herself entangled in a battle of wits far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. \nFrom Sunday Times bestselling author Laura Shepherd-Robinson comes a twisty\, immersive thriller where the truth is a luxury that Hannah Cole can’t afford and every secret is a step closer to her own undoing. \nA twisty confection as subtle and delicious as one of Hannah’s iced creams. I loved it — Ruth Ware \n[Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s] best yet\, and I don’t say that lightly — Harriet Tyce
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/hawthorn-club-august-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Hawthorn Club,Meet at the Book Tree
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260803T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260803T200000
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SUMMARY:Oak Book Club: August 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a welcoming book club to discuss the current novel and choose the next month’s read. \nWe meet on the first Monday of each month for a relaxed conversation\, sharing our thoughts in the friendly atmosphere amongst the bookshelves. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our upstairs event space. \nBook club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Correspondent by Virginia Evans\nWinner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026\nA Times Book of the Year 2025\nA BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick  \nWhat a novel! Tender\, dry\, sharp … devastating\, but still feel good — Pandora Sykes \nMasterful … I was delighted and moved — New York Times \nShows us what a glorious thing growing older can be — Florence Knapp \nSybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three\, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters…  \nTo her children. Her favourite authors. Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. \nHer doctor. Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club. \nAll receive Sybil’s witty\, wise correspondence\, rich with everyday concerns. \nBut there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life. To post it\, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself. \nThe hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send. \nTremendous — Fredrik Backman \nImmensely enjoyable — Guardian \nI can’t praise it enough. It’s an absolute triumph — Clare Chambers
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/oak-club-august-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Meet at the Book Tree,Oak Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T200000
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SUMMARY:Hawthorn Book Club: July 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Thursday book club! \nWe usually meet on the second Thursday of each month for a relaxed and friendly conversation about the current book. \nThis month we will meet on the third Thursday (16th July)\, returning to the second week in August (Thursday 13th). \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson\nA sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl’s quiet rebellion and her refusal to be broken. \nShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026\nWinner of the British Book Award – Discover Prize \nDark\, humorous\, and passionately captures the unique realities of the northern Black experience — The Observer \nSet in 1960s Bradford\, The Mercy Step follows Mercy\, a precocious young child facing a world far too big for her small body. She lives with her Windrush generation parents in a crowded household where her mother’s attention is stretched between church and family\, and her father’s temper is something to be endured or avoided. \nFeeling like an outsider within her own home\, Mercy retreats into books and the companionship of her beloved doll\, Dolly\, while learning early how to navigate the flaws and failings of the adults around her. Yet Mercy is nothing if not resilient. Armed with humour\, style and fierce imagination\, she quietly begins to plot her escape from a traumatic childhood. \nRaw and deeply affecting\, Mercy’s story is one of Black British culture\, childhood\, family and survival in 1960s Britain. Critical to understanding these untold stories\, Marcia’s debut is not to be missed.
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/hawthorn-club-july-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Hawthorn Club,Meet at the Book Tree
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260706T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260706T200000
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SUMMARY:Oak Book Club: July 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a welcoming book club to discuss the current novel and choose the next month’s read. \nWe meet on the first Monday of each month for a relaxed conversation\, sharing our thoughts in the friendly atmosphere amongst the bookshelves. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our upstairs event space. \nBook club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nHum by Helen Phillips\nWINNER OF THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE 2026 \nIngenious and unsettling — Observer \nThis sleek ride of a novel further cements Phillips’s position as one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction — New York Times \nIn a hot and gritty city populated by super-intelligent robots called ‘Hums’\, May seeks some reprieve from recent hardships and from her family’s addiction to their devices. She splurges on a weekend away at the Botanical Garden – a rare\, green refuge in the heart of the city\, where forests\, streams and animals flourish.  \nBut when it becomes clear that the Garden is not the idyll she hoped it would be\, and her children come under threat\, May is forced to put her trust in a Hum of uncertain motives in order to restore the life of her family. \nGripping and unflinching\, Hum is about our most cherished human relationships in a world compromised by climate change and dizzying technological revolution\, a world with both dystopian and utopian possibilities.
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/oak-club-july-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Meet at the Book Tree,Oak Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T180502Z
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SUMMARY:Hawthorn Book Club: June 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Thursday book club! \nWe meet on the second Thursday of each month for a relaxed and friendly conversation about the current book. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha\nBrilliantly rendered … Guha poignantly balances individual lives and threats of political and ecological disaster — Literary Review \nA stylish and engaging tragi-comedy of manners . . . Keshava Guha is an astute and insightful observer of contemporary India — Amitav Ghosh\, author of the Ibis trilogy \nA waspishly witty eye cast on the war between sisters and brothers in polluted\, high-achieving Delhi — Francis Spufford \nThe fiercest wars are fought between siblings. \nTara\, a successful Dehli lawyer\, is everything her younger brother isn’t: dedicated\, independent\, thriving. When their beloved father retires\, he summons them to a meeting. But what he has to say threatens to tear the family apart. \nTara’s friend Lila has it all: a great job\, a lovely home\, a beautiful family. But when Lila’s father dies unexpectedly\, her brother wastes no time in claiming what he thinks is his. \nTogether\, Tara and Lila are forced to confront the challenge that their ambition poses to patriarchal Delhi society. Set against a backdrop of ecological collapse and political unrest\, The Tiger’s Share is both a family and a state-of-the-nation novel unlike anything else in contemporary Indian fiction. \nAn extraordinary new kind of Indian novel in English\, as attuned to life in contemporary New Delhi as to the choices ecological collapse eventually will force upon us all. It’s also the story of two unforgettable families\, told with a controlled emotional precision that only intensifies the power of the novel’s shocking conclusion — Nell Freudenberger\, author of The Newlyweds \nExciting young minds are a joy forever\, and Guha is true superstar … destined for greatness — Amol Rajan \nGuha offers a wide\, chaotic and morally ambiguous portrait of contemporary Delhi society … Its breadth and ambition – with even the most minor characters fleshed out\, each bookshop or park or neighbourhood visited an opportunity for Guha to thicken the text with some historical\, political context – has echoes of Zadie Smith’s early maximalist style — Guardian
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/hawthorn-club-june-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Hawthorn Club,Meet at the Book Tree
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T200000
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SUMMARY:Oak Book Club: June 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a welcoming book club to discuss the current novel and choose the next month’s read. \nWe meet on the first Monday of each month for a relaxed conversation\, sharing our thoughts in the friendly atmosphere amongst the bookshelves. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our upstairs event space. \nBook club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Director by Daniel Kehlmann\, translated by Ross Benjamin\nSupple\, horrifying and mordantly droll — New York Times\, who chose The Director as a Notable Book of 2025 \nFrom ‘one of the brightest\, most pleasure-giving writers at work today’ (Jeffrey Eugenides)\, a visionary tale inspired by the life of the 20th century film director G.W. Pabst\, who left Europe for Hollywood to resist the Nazis and then returned to his homeland with his wife and young son and began making films for the German Reich. An artist’s life\, a pact with the devil\, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. \nG.W. Pabst\, one of cinema’s greatest\, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France\, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun\, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. \nNot even Greta Garbo\, who he made famous\, can help him. And thus\, almost through no fault of his own\, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria\, which is now called Ostmark. The returning family is confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. \nBut Goebbels\, the minister of propaganda in Berlin\, wants the film genius\, he won’t take no for an answer and makes big promises. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances\, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art\, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement. Daniel Kehlmann’s novel about art and power\, beauty and barbarism is a triumph. \nThe Director shows what literature is capable of. \nA subtle\, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art and power — Sunday Times
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/oak-club-june-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Meet at the Book Tree,Oak Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T200000
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SUMMARY:Hawthorn Book Club: May 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Thursday book club! \nWe meet on the second Thursday of each month for a relaxed and friendly conversation about the current book. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nLate in the Day by Tessa Hadley\n \nThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel \nAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house-shares and grubby pubs to proper homes and grown-up careers\, the two couples’ lives have been interlinked for decades. Then one evening\, Alex and Christine receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. \nInconsolable\, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of their loss bringing them closer\, the three of them find that love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness as old entanglements and resentments rise from the past. \nUnflinching\, intelligent and fascinating — Marian Keyes
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/hawthorn-club-may-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Hawthorn Club,Meet at the Book Tree
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260504T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260504T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T183624Z
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SUMMARY:Oak Book Club: May 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a welcoming book club to discuss the current novel and choose the next month’s read. \nIn May and for the foreseeable future\, meetings will now be held on the first Monday of each month rather than the second. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Names by Florence Knapp\n \nBrilliant . . . one of those books that will make you irritable with anyone who interrupts you\, but which you’ll finish wanting to press into the hands of a friend — The Times \nBeautifully written\, and wise and tender . . . An utter original — Jojo Moyes \n*** \nA once-in-a-generation debut from a major new talent\, The Names is the story of three names\, three versions of a life\, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. \nIt is 1987\, and in the wake of a great storm\, Cora sets out with her young daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband expects her to follow tradition and call the baby after him – but is it right for her child to inherit his name from generations of domineering men? Her choice will shape the course of their lives. \nSeven years later\, her son is Bear\, a name chosen by his sister\, hoping he will grow up to be brave and big-hearted. Or he is Julian\, the name his mother set her heart on\, keen for him to become his own person. Or he is Gordon\, named after his father and raised in his cruel image – but is there still a chance to break the mould? \nPowerfully moving and full of hope\, this is the story of three names\, three versions of a life\, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. \n*** \nWildly original and emotionally profound — The Observer \nAstonishing\, unique and incredibly moving\, The Names is a beautiful novel about the courage of a mother in the moment she names her child . . . I know it will stay with me for a long time — Jeanine Cummins
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/oak-club-may-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Meet at the Book Tree,Oak Club
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SUMMARY:Three Acres and a Cow
DESCRIPTION:The history lesson I’ve always wanted. Thank you for a very entertaining/life changing evening. I’ll be looking at the land and listening to folk songs in a very different way — Emily \nA history of land rights and protest in folk song and story\, the show connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with current issues like the housing crisis\, reparations\, climate breakdown and food sovereignty via the Enclosures\, English Civil War and Industrial Revolution\, drawing a compelling narrative through the radical people’s history of England in folk song\, stories and poems. \nPart TED talk\, part history lecture\, part folk club sing-a-long\, part storytelling session… Come and share in these tales as they have been shared for generations. \nVisit the Three Acres and a Cow website for more information about the group and the show\, and check their Frequently Asked Questions page for answers to any specific enquiries. \nThe event will be held in the Memorial Hall\, Pickering\, which is fully accessible. \nDoors 6.30pm with the show starting promptly at 7.00pm. We will finish around 9.45pm with one interval. \nI think about this show all the time. It has totally changed the way I think about colonialism\, direct action and English nationalism. Thinking about it today\, four years after seeing the show\, it’s clear it was a life changing event for me — Monique \n  \nTickets\nStandard seated tickets are £16.50\n(supported and pay it forward options also available) \nBook online at threeacresandacow.co.uk\n(direct link to the Pickering event here)
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/three-acres-and-a-cow/
LOCATION:Pickering Memorial Hall\, Potter Hill\, Pickering\, YO18 8AA
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Folk,Live Music,Social History,Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260409T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260409T200000
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SUMMARY:Hawthorn Book Club: April 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first meeting of a new Book Tree book club! \nWe’ll meet on the second Thursday of each month for a relaxed and friendly conversation about the current book. \nBring along your favourite drink — we’ll provide the glasses and washing up. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nGreater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths\nWaterstones Scottish Book of the Month for February 2026\nRadio Times Best Books of 2025 \nA gritty tale of secrets\, guilt and desire — The Observer \nCompletely enthralling — Lucy Rose\, author of The Lamb \nA simmering tale of outcasts and buried secrets\, love and redemption — Danielle Giles\, author of Mere \n1915\, the Cabrach. \nIn the fierce\, wild beauty of this remote corner of Scotland\, an isolated community makes a discovery: an ancient body in a peat bog\, perfectly preserved. Two people haul the body from the ground: Lizzie\, the wife of a wealthy local landowner\, and Johnny\, a nomadic singer and farm hand. \nSoon afterwards\, strange events begin to occur. At hearthside and inn\, people whisper: what have we unearthed? \nAs tensions run high and men leave for war\, old fears and secrets emerge. But in a place where judgement is swift\, who is truly without sin? \nA striking and atmospheric debut — The Times \nSets a beautifully atmospheric scene from its opening lines to its final moments — PA Media \nScapegoats\, suspicion and secrets…a haunting picture of a small\, intense environment where isolation can breed solidarity and warmth as easily as superstition and exclusion — Financial Times \n\nWhat readers are saying: \n“An earthy\, folkloric tale\, where superstition is rife…a captivating read. Highly recommended” \n“A gothic literary experience\, rural and immersive\, that thrums with tension\, mystery and forbidden love” \n“A deeply immersive reading experience\, and one of the best elements of this book is how the atmosphere and environment of rural scotland\, the small farms\, the fields\, the bog\, the changing of seasons – nature itself becomes a character” \n“Beautifully written\, chilling and disturbing\, the book is an engrossing read from start to finish” \n“Sometimes you come across a book that is note perfect; very readable and entirely relatable but still beautifully\, poetically written. This is such a complete novel\, it is hard to believe it is the author’s debut” \n“This was a stunningly beautiful novel. Dark and creepy and wonderfully realised\, and the character voices were next-level good”
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/hawthorn-club-april-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Hawthorn Club,Meet at the Book Tree
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260406T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260406T200000
DTSTAMP:20260402T201019Z
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SUMMARY:Oak Book Club: April 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a welcoming Book Tree book club! \nWe usually meet on the second Monday of each month to discuss the current book and choose the next month’s read\, but please note that this meeting is on the first Monday in April. \nBring along your favourite drink — we’ll provide the glasses and washing up. \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr\nA Waterstones Book of the Month\nAs read on BBC Radio 4\nA Sunday Times Best Book of the Year\nAn Observer Best Debut of the Year \nA baby is found abandoned on a windswept Irish beach\, and nothing in this small coastal town will ever be the same again. The Boy from the Sea is Garrett Carr’s moving tale of a boy that brings together a community\, but changes a family forever… \nCompassionate\, lyrical and full of devilment — Louise Kennedy\, author of Trespasses \nA joy . . . Vivid\, loving and genuinely funny — The Sunday Times \nI didn’t want it to ever end — Jennie Godfrey\, author of The List of Suspicious Things \nIn 1973 on the west coast of Ireland\, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Who is he? Where is he from? \nAmbrose\, a local fisherman\, is far more interested in who he will become and – with a curious community looking on – takes the baby home and adopts him. \nBut for Declan\, Ambrose’s young son\, this arrival is surely bad news. Rivalries can be decades in the making\, and families are easy to break… \n\nReaders love The Boy from the Sea: \n“Left me feeling warm and satisfied when I finished it and I’ve thought about it daily since then” \n“Books are meant to change you\, to shape you\, and to heal you\, and The Boy from the Sea does all those things” \n“You feel like you’re right there in the village” \n“Stunning. I found myself waking up at 5am because I was desperate to read more” \n“Felt like I was stepping off life’s treadmill and immersing myself in another world”
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/oak-club-april-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Meet at the Book Tree,Oak Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260403T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260403T220000
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SUMMARY:Anne Gair
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome the wonderful Anne Gair to Pickering during the tour for her gorgeous debut album of original songs which has already received wide praise. \nAnne’s music is a heady mix of genres with nods to indie folk\, country americana\, blues and jazz\, with strong vocal melody lines and a penchant for harmony and open tunings. \nAnne played at The International Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow in January 2025\, releasing her debut single Steal Away that same month. \nHer debut album Cigarettes and Smokescreens was chosen as Album of the Week on Celtic Music Radio in November 2025\, and went on to be nominated for Album of the Year. Anne’s fifth single\, Blank Spaces\, was included in the Fatea Winter Sessions 2025. \nOriginally trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama\, Anne has toured widely on stage performing both Joni Mitchell covers as well as her own original material\, and is endorsed by Cole Clark Guitars and G7th Capos. \n(Anne’s) voice is beautiful\, just gorgeous — Nerina Pallot \nThe event will be held in The Black Swan in a separate room with a cosy atmosphere making it a lovely setting for live music! The room has easy access to the bar which will be open as usual\, so arrive any time before the show starts if you’d like to enjoy a drink or two beforehand. There will also be an interval. \nWe’ll check tickets into the performance space from 7pm to allow plenty of time to arrive and find a seat before the music starts at 7.30pm with a special guest opener from Carrie Martin. \nTickets can be booked below\, by contacting Pickering Book Tree\, or on the door while spaces are available. We hope to see you there! \n  \nAbout the Musician\nIn Cigarettes and Smokescreens Gair has delivered a remarkable debut … it flows as confidently as the incoming tide — Neil King\, Fatea Magazine \nWith an extensive performance history\, Anne has toured throughout the UK and abroad both as a solo artist and lately with her ensemble\, The Anne Gair Band. She has played at prestigious venues including The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Celtic Connections 2025)\, The 100 Club\, The Cavern Club\, The Hard Rock Cafe\, The Voodoo Rooms\, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut\, Belladrum Tartan Heart festival\, and regularly performs to sold-out audiences in venues and theatres across the country. \nAnne possesses a passion for writing in alternative open tunings and pushing genre boundaries which has drawn comparison to Laura Marling\, Joni Mitchell\, John Martyn\, and Imelda May\, as she lets each song breathe and travel where it needs to go. \nAnne Gair’s contributions to new music make her an up-and-coming artist being touted as ‘One of Scotland’s most promising songwriters’. \nWhen not on stage\, you will usually find her in a field in Scotland\, in the middle of no-where with her two retired horses. \nWhat a lovely song\, beautifully written. A masterpiece — Paul Johnson\, writing for Folking.com about the single White Horses \n  \nFind Out More\nFollow Anne on Facebook or Instagram \nRead more about Anne on her website \nFind Anne’s music on Bandcamp or YouTube
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/anne-gair/
LOCATION:The Black Swan\, 18 Birdgate\, Pickering\, YO18 7AL
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Edwina Hayes
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome the brilliant Edwina Hayes back to the Book Tree for what we know will be a lovely evening of gorgeous music! \nEdwina’s beautiful songs and natural stage presence have earned her a reputation as a Sweet-voiced songwriter who has a fine line in gentle\, country-tinged material (Time Out Magazine). She has opened shows for Jools Holland and Van Morrison\, toured with artists such as KT Tunstall and Gretchen Peters\, and played her own sets on stages everywhere from Glastonbury Festival to The Royal Albert Hall. \nDrinks will be available to purchase at an informal bar before the show and during the interval. The concert will be in our atmospheric upstairs event space\, surrounded by the building’s old oak beams. \nDoors will open from 7pm\, and the performance will start at 7.30pm. \n  \nAbout the Musician\nThe sweetest voice in England. A wonderful young woman\, so gifted and full of song — Nanci Griffith \nOne of the finest female singer/songwriters this country has produced in years. Edwina brings together English folk\, Americana and the rich Northern singer/songwriter tradition to create a sound that’s truly her own. \nHighly accomplished\, she’s toured with such notable performers as Jools Holland\, Van Morrison\, Nanci Griffith and Loudon Wainwright III to name just a few. \nEdwina numbers Michael Parkinson and Mike Harding among her fans and the title track of her album Pour Me A Drink was covered by Nanci Griffith. \nHer cover of the Randy Newman song Feels Like Home was featured in the Cameron Diaz film My Sister’s Keeper and has since had over twenty million plays on Spotify and over fifty million plays on YouTube. \nEdwina’s 4th album Ruby Rose was released in 2022. \nHaunting\, honeyed\, solo songwriter — The Guardian \n  \nFind Out More\nVisit Edwina’s website \nListen to Edwina’s music on Spotify \nFollow Edwina on Facebook or Instagram \n 
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/edwina-hayes/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Folk at the Book Tree,Live Music
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SUMMARY:Dawn Treacher
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a cosy afternoon tea\, where we’ll meet North Yorkshire author Dawn Treacher to hear about her new novel\, The Ninth Life of Norris. Blending cosy crime with fantastical elements and a cat inspired story of redemption\, this the perfect book to read with a cup of tea or with your book club friends! We’re delighted to bring Dawn and her book to you with a very special afternoon tea event at The Black Swan\, Pickering. \n  \nAbout the Book\nNorris has been here before. He knows he’s lived eight other lives and what’s more\, he can remember them all. He’s not proud of them\, especially not the one when he left his pal\, Jimmy Morgan\, at the mercy of German soldiers in the second world war. \nThe discovery that he’s been reincarnated as a cat isn’t going to help his resolution to make amends to his old friend when he finds himself\, by a strange quirk of fate\, adopted from an animal rescue centre by Jimmy Morgan’s grand-daughter. \nOnce settled into Jimmy’s home\, Norris realises that all is not well in the old man’s life and he’s got himself involved in criminal activity at the behest of his late wife’s family who are blackmailing Jimmy because they know he’s in debt. \nWhen Norris discovers all this\, he knows the only way he can apologise to Jimmy for letting him down in the past\, is to try to help him in the present. But how exactly can he do this when he’s a cat and when Jimmy’s small time criminal activities place his grand-daughter\, Stella\, in danger? \n  \nAbout the Author\nDawn Treacher is a North Yorkshire author and illustrator who writes both adult and children’s fiction. She has a particular love of writing mysteries\, a theme which runs across all her books. \nDawn writes cosy crime novels for her adult readers. Her series of the green Fingered Sleuth Mysteries include The Seeds Of Murder and A Deadly Plot\, inspired by her love of gardening. Her new novel\, The Ninth Life of Norris\, is cosy crime with a magical realism twist\, inspired by her love of cats. \n  \nFind Out More\nVisit Dawn’s website \nFollow Dawn on Instagram
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/dawn-treacher/
LOCATION:The Black Swan\, 18 Birdgate\, Pickering\, YO18 7AL
CATEGORIES:Afternoon Tea,Cosy Crime,Fiction,Food and Drink,Meet the Author
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