In an event that promises to be part chat-show, part book club, Jenna will be interviewing three brilliant authors - Sarah Turner (The Unmumsy Mum), Matson Taylor (Roman Mornings) and Philippa Malicka (Reese’s Book Club smash In Her Defence) about their uplifting, thoughtful and thrilling reads. Then, while pudding is served (this is a Book AND Pudding Club, after all!) conversation will open up to the authors’ own reading recommendations and the audience will be encouraged to ask questions, and contribute their own suggestions. 
 
 This is the perfect event for book clubs to attend together - or for individuals to find a new club…maybe you could even be the person who establishes Bury’s own Book and Pudding Club?
 
Format: Panel Discussion & Q&A
Themes: Fiction, Adults, Young People, Headliner, New Voices, Book Club
Access: Hearing Loop
Pricing note: £20 full / £10 concession / Under 18s free - includes 2-hour session & pudding
 
Sarah Turner Books: The Unmumsy Mum
Sarah Turner is the Sunday Times bestselling author of two contemporary novels and three non-fiction parenting books. Her first novel, Stepping Up, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2023. It was also featured on BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read. Her second novel, On the Edge, reached the top spot in the Kindle chart in 2025.
 
Prior to writing novels, Sarah wrote three non-fiction parenting books after the ‘warts and all’ blog she’d started to let off steam gathered enormous online success and changed the direction of her career in the process. Her first book, The Unmumsy Mum, was voted number 4 in Amazon’s Top 10 books of 2016 by Amazon customers and shortlisted for a British Book Award in 2017. All three titles in the Unmumsy Mum series were Sunday Times bestsellers. Sarah is also a writing coach at The Novelry.
 
Matson Taylor Books: Roman Mornings, The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, All About Evie
Matson Taylor is the author of two bestselling novels. His books have been chosen for the BBC Radio 2 bookclub and the Richard & Judy bookclub. Matson is also a design historian and has worked at museums in London and Rome. Roman Mornings is his third novel.
 
Philippa Malicka Books: In Her Defence
Philippa Malicka lives in London and is an alumnus of the Prose Fiction MA at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, In Her Defence was pre-empted by Hodder in the UK while North American rights were pre-empted by Marysue Rucci at Marysue Rucci Books. In February 2026 it was selected as Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick. 
 
Jenna Smith
Jenna Smith is the founder of Book Taster, one of the UK's most celebrated reading communities. Her Book and Pudding Clubs run nationwide and are dedicated to connecting passionate readers with like-minded individuals and books they'll love.
 
The Book Taster
The Book Taster is a book club community est 2020 with an online book club and 48 in person Book and Pudding Clubs across the UK.