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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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