Book Launch, Hellenic Centre, King's College

[Gail Lillian Holst-Warhaft]

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19 March 2026, Bush House (NE) -1.01: 18:30-20:00: A book presentation by Prof. Gail Holst-Warhaft, My Father and the Silver King (Colenso Books), introduced by Dr Anthony Hirst and Timothy Ashplant (KCL). For Bush House NE, please enter from 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG. This partly fictionalized biography of the author's father begins when he runs away from home at 7 years of age to live on the street's of London's East End. Inspired by a Victorian melodrama, he took great risks and learned skills that took him to Australia, where he made a fortune by the time he was thirty. The author traces her attraction to the music of the Piraeus underworld and the men who sang the rembetika to her father and to the Music Hall songs she was raised on.

Gail Holst-Warhaft

Writer, translator.

Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature

Cornell University

Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

gailholst-warhaft.com

gl...@cornell.edu