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SUMMARY:Amanda Huggins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of storytelling and romance as we chat to award-winning author\, Amanda Huggins about her new novella\, The Blue of You. \nThe perfect read in the run-up to Christmas\, The Blue of You captures the experiences of small town youth and the conflicted feelings that wait for those who choose to return. Set against the backdrop of our very recognisable north-east coastline\, Amanda’s novella is a bitter-sweet and relatable story of one woman’s grief\, her loves and the place she calls home. \n  \nAbout the Book\nEvery Christmas Eve\, Janey Shaw is reminded of the tragic death of her schoolfriend\, Alice\, and the untidy ending of her relationship with Rory Brook\, her first love. When Janey leaves London to return to her hometown on the North East Coast of England\, the ghosts of her unresolved past lie in wait. \nThere\, Janey meets a coble fisherman\, Tom Inglewood\, and admires his ambitions to preserve the traditional way of life in their community and to stop second home owners from painting over the town’s heritage. Can she start to build a new life and finally paint over her own past? Or will she have to confront her ghosts as Christmas draws closer? \n  \nAbout the Author\nAmanda Huggins is the author of the award-winning novellas All Our Squandered Beauty and Crossing the Lines\, as well as seven collections of short stories and poetry. Her latest novella\, The Blue of You\, was released by Northodox Press in October.  Amongst others\, her work has also been published by Harper’s Bazaar\, Mslexia\, The Telegraph and the Guardian. Three of her short stories have been broadcast on BBC radio. \nShe has won numerous awards\, including three Saboteur Awards for fiction and poetry\, the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award\, the H E Bates Short Story Prize and the BGTW New Travel Writer of the Year. \nAmanda grew up on the North Yorkshire coast and has strong family connections to the North York Moors area. She now lives near Leeds where she works as a freelance editor.
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/amanda-huggins/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Fiction,In Conversation With,Literary Fiction,Meet the Author
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SUMMARY:Booker Prize Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second Booker Prize Party! The longlist has been out for a few weeks now and there has already been plenty of chatter in Pickering Book Tree about this year’s choices. It’s a fascinating list of stories that represent the vast array of fates and fortunes that fall upon us humans. From a reinvented great American roadtrip through to a dark English satire that takes no prisoners and onto a richly narrated coming-of-age story set in Malaysia\, the 2025 ‘Booker Dozen’ is reader’s playground! \nThe shortlist will be announced on Tuesday September 23rd\, after which we’ll feature one shortlisted book each week until the prize announcement on Monday 10th November. We’d love to know what you think about the books too\, so feel free to add your comments on our Facebook and Instagram posts! You can also chat with us in the shop about the excellent books on the longlist. \nThis year’s Booker Prize Party will be held on the evening of the winner announcement in our beautiful\, beamed event space. There will be plenty of time to browse the shelves while socialising with likeminded readers and the Book Tree team. What better way to spend an evening than with good friends\, good books and a glass of wine? \nFor those up for staying a little later\, we’ll livestream the winner announcement from the Booker Prize ceremony in London. We expect that this will air at around 10pm (to be confirmed).
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/booker-party-2025/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Bookish Socialising,Fiction,Literary Fiction,Prize Shortlist Celebration
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth O’Connor
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted that Elizabeth O’Connor will be able to visit us during her short tour\, after appearing at Edinburgh Book Festival. \nWhale Fall swept us away when we read it last year in hardback\, and we’re excited to discuss it with Elizabeth at this event! Set against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult\, this haunting story follows Manod\, a young woman who dreams of leaving her remote island home off the coast of Wales. This is a quietly powerful novel\, with every page steeped in the wild landscape\, rural community and depth of meaning — we were transported into Manod’s world and felt her longing amidst a time of rapid change and an island that remained distinctly removed from the mainland. \nWhale Fall was selected as an Observer Best Debut of the Year in 2024\, who said: O’Connor’s beautifully evocative debut explores the liminal spaces between aspiration and disappointment\, adolescence and adulthood\, land and sea . . . a highly impressive coming-of-age tale. It was also chosen as a BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and was shortlisted for the 2025 Betty Trask Award. \nThe event will be held in the Book Tree’s atmospheric upstairs event space. We’ll be in conversation with Elizabeth about her work\, then open the floor to audience questions towards the end of the evening and there will also be an opportunity for book signings. \nComplementary wine and cordial will be available after the door opens at 7pm and during the interval. The event will start at 7.30 pm. \n  \nAbout the Book\nI didn’t want it to end — Maggie O’Farrell \nPowerful . . . written with a calm\, luminous precision — Colm Tóibín \nA beautifully nuanced\, beguiling first novel\, which leaves room for hope. O’Connor has a promising career ahead — The Times \nElizabeth O’Connor’s beautiful\, devastating debut Whale Fall tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult.\nIt is 1938 and on an island off the coast of Wales\, Manod is trying to imagine her future. Her choices are stark: she must either stay and look after her father’s house\, in the wild landscape that drove her mother to madness\, or marry and leave. And so\, when two English anthropologists arrive on the island\, Manod senses the possibility of a thrilling new life. But\, as she becomes entangled in their work\, and their strange relationship\, the outside world she had yearned for appears a much darker place than she could ever have imagined. \nThe quiet cadences of Whale Fall contain a deep melody of loss held and let go. It is a gentle\, tough story about profound change — Anne Enright \nEvocative and haunting . . . written with a care and restraint that is rare in a debut novel. It teems with visceral imagery — Jude Cook\, The Guardian \nAn excellent debut . . . Brief but complete\, the book is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character’s specific existence glimmer with verisimilitude — Maggie Shipstead\, New York Times \n  \nAbout the Author\n\nElizabeth O’Connor lives in Birmingham. Her short stories have appeared in The White Review and Granta\, and she was the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize in 2020. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Birmingham\, on the modernist writer H.D. and her writing of coastal landscapes. Whale Fall is her first novel.
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/elizabeth-oconnor/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Fiction,Historical Fiction,In Conversation With,Literary Fiction,Meet the Author
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