Ipswich 100 author event with Kate Thompson

Join us for an author event with Kate Thompson as part of Ipswich 100, a celebration of Ipswich Library's centenary! Kate will be talking to us about her career so far and her two novels, The Little Wartime Library and The Wartime Book Club.

Tickets are £5.00 each. This event includes an audience Q&A and book signing.

About The Little Wartime Library:

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. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café and a theatre offering shelter, solace and escape from the bombs that fall above.

Along with her glamorous best friend and library assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it seems it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.

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.

About Kate Thompson:

Kate Thompson was born in London and worked as a journalist for twenty years on women's magazines and national newspapers. She now lives in Sunbury with her husband, two sons and two rescue dogs. After ghost writing five memoirs, Kate moved into fiction. Kate's first non-fiction social history documenting the forgotten histories of East End matriarchy, The Stepney Doorstep Society, was published in 2018 by Penguin. She is passionate about capturing lost voices and untold social histories. 

Today Kate works as a journalist, author and library campaigner. Her most recent books, The Little Wartime Library and The Wartime Book Club, by Hodder & Stoughton, focus on two remarkable libraries in wartime. Her 100 libraries project, celebrates the richness and complexity of librarians work and the vital role of libraries in our communities.