Nathanael Lessore author visit

We were delighted to begin Black History Month by welcoming this year's winner of the Waterstones prize for Older Children, the Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Medal and the Jhalak Children's and Young Adult Prize, Nathanael Lessore. Nathanael is the author of some of the most popular books in the Lower School Library; Steady for This, King of Nothing, and What Happens Online, and the boys were eager to meet him. Nathanael gave an inspiring talk to Year 7 and 8 about how important reading is to develop empathy and hone the writing skills necessary for academic attainment and future career success. Using hilarious anecdotes from his own teenage years, Nathanael showed the boys how to enhance their creative writing by drawing inspiration from their daily lives and the people and places around them, and encouraged them to be ambitious writers.

After his talk in the Great Hall,  Nathanael visited the Lower School Library where he chatted to some of his keenest fans, kindly gave some advice to one of our aspiring authors on how to handle a tricky patch in a story he is writing and was interviewed for the Lower School newspaper – The Despatch – by one of our Year 7 journalists.