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AGENT ZO long listed for the Pilecki Book Award

The award, run in partnership with the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum, has nominated AGENT ZO in the Reportage History category.

7 September 2026

150th anniversary of Eglantyne Jebb’s birth

Clare has paid tribute to Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children & pioneer of Children’s human rights, in the Church Times, Engelsberg Ideas and on BBC Shropshire.

25 August 2026

Agent Zo flies to Poland in a Hawker Hurricane

Over 80 years after parachuting into enemy-occupied Poland, Agent Zo flew to Poland in a Hurricane, organised by Polish Heritage Flight to pay tribute to the aircrew of both nations.

11 August 2026

Violette Szabó memorial picnic

Clare was delighted to be the guest speaker, alongside Violette’s daughter Tania, at the annual memorial in Hereford, where Violette Szabó spent many happy summers as a child.

15 July 2026

Clare has had a busy first half of the year!

While working on her new book, Clare has been recording TV, radio & pods, & has spoken at many events including at Bletchley Park, Battle of Britain Bunker (photo), Polish Embassy, Cambridge University, Oxford Lit Fest, 3 prisons, libraries, societies & schools. Do get in touch to book Clare.

13 July 2026

Clare with Angela Rayner at the Women’s Prize

Avid reader Angela Rayner supported this year’s Women’s Prize in London, where the winners were Virginia Evans for The Correspondent (fiction), and Lyse Doucet for The Finest Hotel in Kabul (nonfiction).

11 June 2026

New memorial plaque at Newmarket

An iconic Lysander landed at former RAF Newmarket today, to mark the installation of a new memorial plaque and info board about the racecourse’s historic role in WW2

9 June 2026

Eglantyne Jebb donation to the Women’s Library

Clare donated a previously undocumented devotional, entrusted to her by a Jebb family friend, to the Eglantyne Jebb collection Women’s Library archive, at the LSE.

4 June 2026

Winston Churchill’s paintings on show at the Wallace Collection, London

Clare attended the PV of this fascinating new exhibition of Churchill’s paintings, including some for the First and Second World Wars. Runs until end Nov 2026.

20 May 2026

THE LIBRARY BOOK is ‘highly commended’ in national Local History Awards

‘Outstanding, beautifully written… brilliant and engaging‘, say the national Alan Ball Local History Award judges in highly commending THE LIBRARY BOOK

5 April 2026