Jeremy Waxman
Jeremy grew up in Bush Hill Park, Enfield, and was educated at Bancroft's School and Exeter University. He began working life as a history teacher in Sheffield and later became a headteacher, firstly of Halifax High in Calderdale, and then at Kingsbury High in the London Borough of Brent. Jeremy was made OBE for services to education in 2006.
Jeremy retired from the teaching profession in 2017 (and again in 2019) and now pursues enthusiasms for writing, travel, film, jazz, cricket and Tottenham Hotspur. The Century of Zara Keff is his first novel, and is to be published by The Book Guild in January 2025.
Jeremy is currently preparing a work of non-fiction, Letters to Miss Baker: How one teacher kept in touch with former scholars of Kingsbury County School serving their country. Due for publication in May 2025, it will be dedicated to Kingsburians, past, present and future, on the occasion of the centenary of the Kingsbury County School and the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Jeremy Waxman's Books
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The Century of Zara Keff
28 Jan 2025When Zara Keff is evacuated from London to Cambridgeshire in 1940, her extended family goes along too.
A model pupil, Zara relishes being in the thick of the local war effort, winning her school a prize for her tireless efforts on the home front. When tales of the suffering inflicted in occupied Europe begin to emerge, she is as horrified as any of her classmates. That horror is compounded by a shocking chance discovery, for Zara is not quite who she thinks she is.
A tender, thought-provoking book about love, lies, and identity, it weaves the complex tale of the century itself through the lifetime of Zara Keff.