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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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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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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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