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  • Ellie Levenson

    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Join us for a gripping and heart wrenching locked room drama from Ellie Levenson, who is certainly a debut novelist to watch! Sarah Jessica Parker “adored Room 706” and said of the novel that it is “as tender as it is surprising… a gripping interrogation of womanhood” (which is) “poignant, immersive, and utterly human”. Room 706 is a thrilling, thought provoking and deeply compelling story which will make a fantastic book club choice, so we’re very excited to chat with Ellie about it at this event!

    Free

  • Katie Carr

    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Join us for a captivating evening in conversation with Katie Carr, when she will discuss her forthcoming memoir Thundery at Times. Katie’s story is beautifully realised on the page — she has created a hopeful and honest, yet uplifting account, of her attempt to finish the challenge left to her by her brother Toby, whose story is so poignantly told in her first book Moderate Becoming Good Later.

    Free

  • Midsummer Festival: Wyl Menmuir

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    From the lonely heights of mountains to the womblike depths of caves, from sacred monuments and pilgrimage sites, to art made by our Neolithic ancestors and today's sculptors, stone has always drawn us in. In The Spirit of Stone, Wyl Menmuir brings together social history, folklore and encounters with the landscapes to explore the many ways in which rock and earth ground us and form part of our identities, histories and futures.

  • Midsummer Festival: Toni Bunnell

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Music of social conscience and love of the natural world. Toni's original songs in the traditional style, accompanied on guitar, dulcimer, hurdy gurdy and bouzouki, bring audiences and communities together with her rousing performances. 100% of all ticket sales will be donated to Protect the Wild.

  • Midsummer Festival: Old Songs

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    As the Summer Solstice twilight nears, join us for a haunting evening of stories told through music, words and art by Soft Lap. Author and historian Amy Jeffs, artist Gwen Burns and musician Natalie Brice join in mesmerising harmony to sing these timeless tales of love and death kept alive through generations of telling.

  • Midsummer Festival: Amy Jeffs

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    St. Peter and St. Paul's Church Hallgarth, Pickering, United Kingdom

    Saints legends suffused medieval European culture. Their heroes wonder-working and suffering shaped landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Their tales spoke of women communing with flocks of birds, men raised by wolves and severed heads calling from between bristling paws. In Saints, Amy Jeffs retells legends of the medieval saints alongside their histories, drawing on in-depth research from 4th to 16th century cultural sources, illustrated throughout with beautiful paper cutout art.