Our next Monday book club is on 3rd August when we’ll discuss winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. “The year's breakout novel no one saw coming” (Wall Street Journal) was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick and a Times Book of the Year, who praised it as “a warm, funny gem of a novel”.
We’re delighted to welcome “the voice of fairy tales” Daria Kulesh to the Book Tree. Daria is a spellbinding folk singer-songwriter with Russian and Ingush roots whose music has been described as “haunting and enigmatic” by The Times and “intensely personal and immensely resonant… incredibly moving” by TwickFolk.
Our next Thursday book club is on 13th August when we’ll discuss The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick of the Summer and Sunday Times Bestseller. The Times said that “Laura Shepherd-Robinson takes delight in pulling the rug out from under her readers' feet . . . in this cleverly structured and consistently enjoyable novel”.
Join us in conversation with Naomi Kelsey to hear about her gripping new historical fiction novel, Pale Mistress, an innovative and compelling reimagining of Othello from the point of view of Bianca.
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Part Shakespearean retelling, part psychological thriller, Pale Mistress powerfully gives voice to a mysterious and maligned character, exploring the human cost of love, envy and ambition while weaving in the making and breaking of one of Shakespeare’s most notorious villains, Iago.
Our next Monday book club is on 7th September when we’ll discuss Helm by Sarah Hall, a wondrous, elemental novel from “a writer of show-stopping genius” (the Guardian). The book was a Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Independent and BBC Book of the Year and described as “a truly astonishing thing” by George Monbiot, “pulsing with life and lyricism” by the Spectator, and “delightfully playful” by Andrew Miller.
