World Book Day – Author Visit
HGS was thrilled to welcome best-selling author Abir Mukherjee to school on Monday 3rd March as part of our work to celebrate World Book Day.
Abir has sold more than 400,000 books worldwide and is known for his bestselling Wyndham and Bannerjee series, as well as Hunted, which is currently Waterstone’s thriller of the month. Abir spoke movingly during packed assemblies for Year 9 and 10 students of his experiences in Scotland in the 1980s and his search for his identity growing up between the Indian culture of his family and the British culture of his schooling. His thought-provoking talk saw our HGS students asking insightful questions. Later on, Abir delivered a workshop to our Year 11 students where he encouraged and guided them in their writing with some excellent advice!
We are immensely grateful to Abir for giving up his time to come and work with our HGS students, and to our boys for getting involved in the day and making him feel so welcome in our school community.
