*Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances-- Kate Thompson @ Southwold Literary Festival

Kate Thompson is an award-winning journalist, ghostwriter and novelist who has spent the past two decades in the UK book publishing industry.

Her debut novel, “Secrets of the Singer Girls”, became a Sunday Times bestseller when it launched in 2015. Her first non-fiction book which uncovers the lives of extraordinary women of wartime East End, “The Stepney Doorstep Society” was published 2018.

Her latest novel, “The Little Wartime Library”, is based on the remarkable true story of Bethnal Green Underground’s shelter library in WW2 and is a gripping and is a heart-wrenching page-turner that remembers one of the greatest resistance stories of the war.

Unreserved seating.