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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: 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: 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/
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