An online evening with Kate Thompson discussing The Little Wartime Library.

On Tuesday 28 June from 7-8pm Barnet Libraries presents: An online evening with Kate Thompson in conversation with Siddy Holloway author of Hidden London: Discovering The Forgotten Underground discussing her stunning new book The Little Wartime Library. There will be a 20mins Q&A session, with a prize for the best question.

Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Based on true events, The Little Wartime Library is a gripping and heart-wrenching page-turner that remembers one of the greatest resistance stories of the war.

Kate will also discuss the penultimate v2 rocket of the war which landed on the Passover holiday in the largely Jewish residence of Hughes mansions.

Kate Thompson is an award-winning journalist, ghost-writer, and novelist. She worked as Deputy & Acting Editor of IPC’s weekly Pick Me Up magazine. In addition, she also has experience working on national newspapers, the Daily Express, and Daily Mail.

Over the last several years, she had concentrated on publishing, writing fiction and non-fiction titles. Her debut novel, Secrets of the Singer Girls, became a Sunday Times bestseller when it launched in 2015.

Kate’s first non-fiction book which uncovers the lives of extraordinary women of wartime East End, The Stepney Doorstep Society was published by Penguin in August 2018 and reached number one in the history categories on Amazon. The Little Wartime Library will be published in February 2022.

Siddy Holloway is the Engagement Manager for the Hidden London programme by the London Transport Museum. She is the co-author of the Hidden London Book, published by Yale University Press in 2019 and the co-creator of 9 Hidden London tours and experiences. Siddy’s background is in performing and presenting, she has a passion for history, engineering and people stories and loves discovering hidden pockets of history around London and the London Underground. She is also the co-presenter of the hit UKTV series ‘Secrets of The London Underground’.