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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

  • 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

  • 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.