Pickering Book Tree

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43a Market Place
Pickering, YO18 7AE Get Directions
Phone 01751 469715
Website https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk

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  • Hawthorn Book Club: October 2026

    Hawthorn Club
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Our next Thursday book club is on 15th October when we’ll discuss The Wax Child by Olga Ravn an “addictive and unsettling” (Claire-Louise Bennett) novel translated by Martin Aitken. The book was longlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize and is rated among the best books of 2026 in the Irish Times, Telegraph and Sunday Times, who described it as “something truly special. A wonderfully weird novel full of lines that will rattle around in your brain”.

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  • John Blek

    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Join us in welcoming Irish singer-songwriter John Blek back to Pickering during the UK tour for his new album launched earlier this year, The Midnight Ache.
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    John’s music is influenced by a varied mix of styles from the traditional folk of Ireland, Britain and the US, to alt. country, to folk-informed pop, delivered by an artist with a voice that could break a heart in two and songs that could heal the most weary of souls.

  • C.J. Cooke

    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Join us in conversation with C.J. Cooke about her new novel, The House of Cursed Daughters, a retelling of a real medieval curse pronounced on a twelve-year old princess by a dying knight.
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    Carolyn’s fiction is often classed as feminist gothic and/or psychological suspense, with praise from Scots Magazine stating “Cooke is known for her ability to craft spellbinding tales filled with dread and terror, but also beauty”.

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  • Booker Prize Party 2026

    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Join us for a relaxed evening of bookish chat about this year’s Booker Prize list before the winner is announced later in the evening. Whether you’ve read one book from the longlist, have challenged yourself to the full Booker 13, or want to decide which to pick up first, everyone’s welcome to explore the Booker Prize with us!

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  • Oh, Whistle…

    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Join us for a dramatic reading with actor Robert Lloyd Parry who will be in character as M.R. James for this atmospheric evening of classic ghost stories.
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    With the electric lights off, Robert will tell two quietly terrifying tales: M.R. James’s ghostly masterpiece ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ will be beautifully complemented by ‘The Ash Tree’, a story of witchcraft and generational vengeance.
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    On this long winter night, hear these two stories just as M.R. James’s friends did in his Cambridge study more than a hundred years ago.