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  • Jules Brown

    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Join us in conversation with travel author Jules Brown to discuss his latest book, Far Out, where he journeys to the edges of Europe by train with plenty of stories and travel tips along the way. Jules’ books are described as “the best kind of travel companion – funny, informed and always up for an adventure” by Martin Dunford (Rough Guides founder & Cool Places publisher). We can’t wait to hear more about some of Jules’ adventures, perfect for armchair travellers and explorers alike!

    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: 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.