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Win paperback copies of The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson - plus exclusive book club kits!

To celebrate paperback publication of The Little Wartime Library we are giving away 5 sets of 10 copies, plus a set of 10 bespoke book club kits including questions and recommendations from the author, to 5 lucky reading groups.

This is the perfect book for reading group discussions.

Here’s a little more information about the book:

London, 1944.

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.

If you’d like to win 10x copies for your reading group, please email [email protected] telling us why you’d love to read The Little Wartime Library, by Thursday 1st September. Alternatively, if you would just like a book club kit for your reading group, please email the above address.

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