Author Archive
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News and an offer
0December 14, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Tucked into a corner of King’s Cross Station, just beside the sign for Platform 9-and-3/4, there’s a newish bookshop called …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Adventure Walks, Atticus Claw, Guinea Pigs Online, Jewish Socialist, Keren David, New Books, Platform 9 3/4, review, Village Books, Watermark, Wrtiers' Forum
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Christmas stories
0December 7, 2012 by Lydia Syson
This post was written for Hot Key Books ‘9 Days of Christmas’ All my childhood memories of Christmas merge into …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: 9 days of Christmas, A Hundred and One Dalmations, Chanukah, Christmas, Dodie Smith, Laura Ingalls Wilder, memories, On the Banks of Plum Creek, Rumer Godden, snow, Special offer, The Story of Holly and Ivy, traditions
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The Next Big Thing
2December 5, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Yes, yes, I know writers are meant to be a lonely lot, isolated in far-flung garrets of angst-ridden creativity. Actually, …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Battle of Britain, children's writers, Fleur Hitchcock, Julie Mayhew, Natasha Ngan, Next Big Thing, Polish pilot, Rebecca Lisle, Saviour Pirotta, WW2
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Top Ten
2November 29, 2012 by Lydia Syson
I’ve been having a lot of fun and also a little anguish this week choosing my ten favourite historical novels …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Alice Walker, Alison Uttley, Barbara Leonie Picard, challenge, change, E Nesbit, Elizabeth Wein, Geraldine Symons, Guardian, historical fiction, Joan Aiken, Judith Kerr, must read, Nancy Mitford, Philip Pullman, rebellion, top 10
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Their fight, our fight?
1November 21, 2012 by Lydia Syson
When I made the decision to write A World Between Us entirely from the perspectives of the three main characters, …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Army of Africa, Black History, Langston Hughes, Moors, Moroccans, Oliver Law, prejudice, Reg Saxton, Regulares, solidarity
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Present time
2November 12, 2012 by Lydia Syson
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iBook update and other news…
0November 1, 2012 by Lydia Syson
A quick round-up this week… Everything is coming together on the multi-touch iBook edition of A World Between Us and …
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Party in Peckham: 25th October 2012
2October 24, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Book signing and general festivities from 7 -9 pm at review,131 Bellenden Road, SE15 4QY – my wonderful local bookshop.
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My Dear Friend…
1October 19, 2012 by Lydia Syson
‘There are loads of histories that deserve remembering’ wrote Catherine Johnson this week on The History Girls blogspot, on the …
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Cover Story
0October 16, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Last Christmas I handed over present-buying duties to a reponsible other and buckled down to re-writes. By early January Hot …
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