94. BOOK WITTERY: Big Festival Book Club
Love reading books? Love wittering about books? Then you will LOVE Book Wittery – our first Big Festival Book Club! Read our chosen title, persuade your friends, family and regular book group members to read it too, then come along to our special ‘meet the author’ discussion group.
Our selected book is The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson. It was shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction and won the 2026 Discover Prize by The British Book Awards.
Set in 1960s Bradford, the novel follows Mercy, a precocious young child living with her Windrush-generation parents in a crowded and volatile household. Resilient and armed with humour, style and fierce imagination, she quietly begins to plot her escape.
Share your thoughts with author Hutchinson and your fellow readers.
This event will be chaired by Naomi Frisby.
Naomi Frisby is a writer and Programme and Partnerships Manager for the education charity First Story. She runs the blog The Writes of Woman and co-hosts the podcast Late To It.
*Book RRP £10.99
This event is part of our Page Turners strand.
Event Details
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- Date: Sunday 18th October
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Price£20/17 concessions Ticket + Book* or £12/9 concessions ticket only
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