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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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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:20260706T190000
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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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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: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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260406T190000
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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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