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  • Hawthorn Book Club: April 2026

    Hawthorn Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our first Thursday book club is on 9th April when we’ll discuss Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths. The book is praised by the Radio Times as having an “extraordinary sense of place and time, written by an exciting new voice” when they selected it in their Best Books of 2025 feature. Amy Twigg (author of Spoilt Creatures) described Greater Sins as “a striking debut, filled with folkloric mystery and yearning” and Lucy Steeds (The Artist) called it “beguiling and elegiac”.

    Free – £9.00

  • Oak Book Club: May 2026

    Oak Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Monday book club is on 4th May when we’ll discuss The Names by Florence Knapp, which was chosen as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, Independent, and the Sunday Times who said 'I've just been blown away by the best debut novel in years . . . A genius idea for a book’. 

    Free – £9.00

  • Hawthorn Book Club: May 2026

    Hawthorn Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Thursday book club is on 14th May when we’ll discuss Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley. The book was chosen by the Sunday Times in their list of 100 Great 21st Century Novels, who praised it as “a fine-grained novel of friendship, loss and jealousy”.

    Free – £9.00

  • Oak Book Club: June 2026

    Oak Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Monday book club is on 1st June when we’ll discuss The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin. The book is shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize and has been selected as a 2025 Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer, among others. Salman Rushdie has described The Director as “a dazzling performance and a real page turner”, while the Wall Street Journal said that it’s “nothing short of brilliant”.

    Free – £9.90

  • Hawthorn Book Club: June 2026

    Hawthorn Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Thursday book club is on 11th June when we’ll discuss The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha. The book was selected by the Guardian as a Paperback Highlight and featured on their Summer Reading list describing it as “a novel of ideas crossed with a juicy family saga, this state-of-the-nation snapshot of contemporary India wittily anatomises the battle for resources - environmental, financial, social - in a clash between ambitious daughters and complacent sons”.

    Free – £9.90