Pudding and Pages

Pudding and Pages A friendly and accessible club for discovering brilliant books & sharing delicious desserts. First Thursday of every month.

Changes are coming to Pudding & Pages…After a good chat with those who came to the September edition of Pudding & Pages ...
05/09/2026

Changes are coming to Pudding & Pages…

After a good chat with those who came to the September edition of Pudding & Pages about what is and isn’t working for me as a host, and for the club in general, from October 2026 I will be implementing some changes to the format of our events. The format hasn’t changed much at all since the club started in August 2024 and I have been mulling these changes for a while. I think combining them with our change of venue seems like a good time to implement them.

What will be staying the same?
- The ticket price. The £12 ticket price hasn’t increased since the book club began in August 2024 and isn’t changing now.
- Reading and discussing great books.
- Our wonderful community and atmosphere.
- Delicious puddings themed around what we have read, plus a drink.
- Quarterly book swaps.
- Special Christmas Jolabokaflod book swap.

What is changing?
- The event duration will be slightly shorter. Moving forward we will meet between 19:00 and 21:00.
- Guest authors. These will no longer be advertised as a regular feature of the club. We will still have guest authors sometimes but they’re no longer going to be a core part of the timetable.
- Instead, we will have 20-30 minutes where members can choose between reading, a bring-your-own craft activity, or bookish colouring in (materials provided).
- Maximum numbers. Maximum numbers will now be capped at 24 per meet, for the time being, for coziness and because we are trying out a new round table seating arrangement which would be impractical with too many people. This will be reviewed periodically.
- The voting shortlist and monthly themes. Instead of members voting between four books each month, we will be alternating between a host-curated read and a voting shortlist of two titles. October will be a two-book shortlist, November will be host-curated, December will be a two-book shortlist, and so on. There will be no themes.
NB: the annual reading tracker given out in January 2026 and associated competition to win an annual club pass is still very much valid!

Alongside our fantastic new venue, I hope that these changes to the book club meets will be refreshing and enjoyable and I hope to have a full table in October.

Sophie 📚

Thank you so much to Melissa at The Book Bank for warmly welcoming us into your wonderful new venue for tonight’s instal...
03/09/2026

Thank you so much to Melissa at The Book Bank for warmly welcoming us into your wonderful new venue for tonight’s instalment of Pudding & Pages.
Thank you also to Sugar Lips Cupcakes for the delicious and visually stunning moss cakes, custom designed to celebrate the protagonist of our most recent read, a moss scientist!
Thank you most of all to all those who came along tonight. I hope you enjoyed our first event in our new home and I look forward to seeing everyone again in October.
Sophie 📚

After two wonderful years it is with sadness and gratitude that I must inform book clubbers that Pudding & Pages will no...
27/07/2026

After two wonderful years it is with sadness and gratitude that I must inform book clubbers that Pudding & Pages will no longer be taking place at Cream in Marshall’s Yard.

For unforeseeable operational reasons Cream is no longer able to host the book club, however the relationship between Cream and Pudding and Pages is, and will remain, a positive one.

I would like to thank Mette and the team at Cream for two years of wonderful book club meetings, excellent support and hospitality, and delicious desserts. I encourage all book club members to continue to support Cream outside of the book club.

As soon as a new home for Pudding & Pages is confirmed I will announce it here. I have every intention that September’s meeting will still go ahead and will inform existing ticket holders of the details with as much notice as possible.

Sophie 📚

Another wonderful evening at Cream was had on Thursday 2nd July. This time we created some poetry and some love heart or...
04/07/2026

Another wonderful evening at Cream was had on Thursday 2nd July. This time we created some poetry and some love heart origami and pressed flower bookmarks. Thank you to those who were brave enough to share their Blackout Poems at the end of the session. Lesley Watson created a particularly beautiful poem about Kent’s cherry blossom and read it aloud beautifully.
Thank you to Mette at Cream for the absolutely delicious lemon meringue pie.
Thank you to Melissa of The Book Bank (https://www.instagram.com/melissas_bookbank) for our lovely bookmarks and for coming to tell us all about the wonderful new book shop and community space which she will soon be opening in the former Halifax bank in Gainsborough.
And as ever, thank you to the wonderful members of Pudding & Pages for your support, enthusiasm, and wonderful contributions to our discussions.
Our next event will be Thursday 3rd September (see event page for tickets) and our next read will be The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

A “cracking” time was had at Pudding & Pages this evening.After a very thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion based...
07/05/2026

A “cracking” time was had at Pudding & Pages this evening.
After a very thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion based on ‘War in Val d’Orcia’ by Iris Origo we enjoyed an absolutely delicious ‘zuppa inglese’ (English soup) pudding. Cream always produce delicious desserts but this time Mette really outdid herself and there were empty dessert glasses all round.
We then had an egg-painting contest. The winning eggs from each of the two categories, “literary” and “spring”, were Mr Bump and the chick, whose artists have both won a free ticket for June’s event, with Stephen Fry-ed Egg and Bluebells the runners up, winning 20% off a ticket to a future event.
Our next read will be ‘This Book Reminded Me of You’ by Libby Page. Keep an eye on the page for the event and ticket link to go live in the next day or two.
Sophie 📚

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