Daisy Hildyard was born in Yorkshire in 1984 and currently lives in London, where she is studying for a PhD on scientific language. This is her first book.
Monday 16th September
'Come pluck your highbrows at Hampstead and Highgate Lit Fest. It's a mental espresso and major mind gym. See u there for fun, frivolity and full frontal emotional disclosure.' Kathy Lette
11am - 12pm
Survivors Speak
Margot Barnard & Cirla Lewis Tell Their Remarkable Stories To Historian Helen Fry
£7
Margot Barnard, born into a middle-class German Jewish family, discovered Zionism at 13 and, in 1936, she emigrated alone to Palestine. Her story I'll Never See You Again spans 20th century Germany, British Mandate Palestine, post war Britain and life as an army wife. Cirla Lewis, born in Belgium, escaped capture from the Nazis with her mother when all remaining Jews were rounded up. She remembers the past in her spellbinding book, Cirla's Story.
11am - 12pm
Debut Novel
Hunters In The Snow
Daisy Hildyard
£7
After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men, the exiled Edward IV, Tsar Peter the Great, the former African slave Olaudah Equiano and Herbert, Lord Kitchener.