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May 18, 2023 by Lydia Syson

… you’ve reached the website of Lydia Syson, writer, educator and Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow. Photograph by Gianluca De Girolamo, Adshot, …
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Article: Breaking into the middle of the story. . .

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May 17, 2023 by Lydia Syson

I was delighted to read Paloma Fresno-Calleja’s very perceptive analysis of Mr Peacock’s Possessions in the journal Critique: Studies in …
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Writers’ Rights and Human Rights

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July 16, 2018 by Lydia Syson

Here’s a link to a piece I’ve written for the Historical Writers’ Association excellent online magazine, Historia about tackling slavery in fiction, …
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Reports from Raoul – 30.2622° S 178.5948° E

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June 14, 2018 by Lydia Syson

I’ve been spending the week going through my notes and listening to sound recordings made on the HMNZS Canterbury in …
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Bookings & Events

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May 24, 2018 by Lydia Syson

Please contact lydiasyson@gmail.com to discuss bookings of any kind. You’ll find more about her work in universities as a Royal …
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Mr Peacock’s Possessions: sources and background reading

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May 4, 2018 by Lydia Syson

As noted in the book, the most important sources for Mr Peacock’s Possessions were: Elsie K Morton Crusoes of Sunday Island, 1957. Steven Gentry, Raoul …
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Heading towards publication day. . .

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May 3, 2018 by Lydia Syson

As I write this in London, the Kermadecs – the chain of volcanic islands in the Pacific where Mr Peacock’s Possessions …
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2018 news

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February 24, 2018 by Lydia Syson

A book cover, an expedition, a story.


Authors for Grenfell Tower auction

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June 23, 2017 by Lydia Syson

Raise money for residents affected by the Grenfell Towers fire through the Red Cross London Fire Relief Fund and get …
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World Book Week writing competition results. . . and other news

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June 6, 2017 by Lydia Syson

Authors aren’t just for World Book Day, and the positive effects of an author visiting a school continue to have …
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“A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling” THE TIMES (Best historical fiction in 2018)

“Powerful, intense and beautiful” HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

“This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal” EMMA DARWIN

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

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