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Kate Thompson

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History, Nonfiction, Historical Fiction

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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 (2022) and The Wartime Book Club (2023) by Hodder & Stoughton focus on two remarkable libraries in wartime. Her 100 libraries project, celebr ...more

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	The Little Wartime Library 4.24 avg rating — 11,769 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wartime Book Club 4.26 avg rating — 5,165 ratings — published 2024 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Homefront Girls 4.48 avg rating — 843 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Allotment Girls 4.38 avg rating — 777 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Sewing Bee 4.29 avg rating — 735 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mother's Promise by Renee Salt, Kate Thompson (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 2024 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Singer Girls 4.37 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stepney Doorstep Society 4.25 avg rating — 545 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Lavender Girls (Homefront Girls #2) 4.61 avg rating — 431 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wedding Girls 4.33 avg rating — 224 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kate Thompson rated a book did not like it RENEE SALT'S MEMOIR 2025, A MOTHER'S STORY. A Holocaust Survivor’s Story of Love, Loss, and Unbreakable Hope: Memoir on Surviving Auschwitz and the Darkest Moments of History by Jude Williams	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
SCAM SCAM SCAM An AI generated copy of my book about the life of Holocaust Survivor Renee Salt. Using AI to produce a counterfeit copy of a survivor's memoir is about as low as it gets. I hold whoever did this in the highest contempt!! ...more
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Kate Thompson voted for By Any Other Name as Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction in the Final Round of the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards. Cast Your Vote
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Kate Thompson liked Jen (thatmamabooknook)'s review of The Wartime Book Club: "Rating: 4/5 stars Genre: Historical Fiction The Wartime Book Club is a dual POV story of two women on the island of Jersey during World War II. Grace, who is the island's remaining librarian, and Bea, a postal worker, who are trying to survive the war " Read more of this review »
May 16, 2024 12:05AM · see review
Kate Thompson liked Cel Jel's review of The Little Wartime Library: "Bethnal Green library was bombed out early in the Blitz during WWII. This book is a telling of life for the people who got to use the library that formed thanks to the action of the Librarian and a helper on that day of bombing to move as much stock " Read more of this review »
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Kate Thompson liked peg craddock's review of The Little Wartime Library: "Essential reading! Enjoy and lose yourself in this one. Library worlds belong to all! As a former teacher librarian and after retiring, a volunteer who set up a library and maintained it because no-one else was available, I HAD to read this. A child " Read more of this review »
Feb 09, 2024 01:08PM · see review
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“Women are like teabags. You never know how strong they are until they’re in hot water.”
― Kate Thompson, The Stepney Doorstep Society

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“If you have a book, you have a friend. As an only child, reading gave me a friend ALL the time.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

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“there’s no such thing as just a librarian.”
― Kate Thompson, The Little Wartime Library

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The Devil at His Elbow Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Valerie Bauerlein

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The Seamstress of Auschwitz by C. K. McAdam

The Seamstress of Auschwitz
C. K. McAdam

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Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny

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The Wartime Book Club
Kate Thompson

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