(SOLD OUT) The Wartime Book Club display packs

The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson is a gripping and heartwarming novel inspired by the true events of the women who joined the resistance in Jersey during the German occupation in WW2. Free display packs are available to order. Each pack includes:

• 2 x A3 posters
• 20 bookmarks
• 1 x bunting
• 1 x copy of the book – for the first 10 libraries to order
• Digital resource pack

More about the book

Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island.

Grace La Mottée, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy and escapism of reading.

But as the occupation drags on, the women's quiet acts of bravery become more perilous - and more important - than ever before. And, when tensions turn to violence, they are forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance . . .

Please place you order below by Friday 8 March. Please be aware that packs may sell out before the deadline.

Please order one pack per library only. If you do not use a library email address, your order may be cancelled.

In return for these materials we ask that you share photos of your display and complete a short feedback form.