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MR PEACOCK’S POSSESSIONS (Historical novel)
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February 14, 2018 by Lydia Syson

Oceania, 1879 ‘I wake again and again and wish we had never come to this place. It seems to me …
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LIBERTY’S FIRE (Young Adult Novel)
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February 20, 2015 by Lydia Syson

Paris, 1871. Nearly 40 years after the events of Les Miserables, a new revolution is brewing. . . Though the …
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THAT BURNING SUMMER (Young Adult Novel)
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August 30, 2013 by Lydia Syson

Romney Marsh, July 1940. When invasion threatens, you have to grow up quickly. Sixteen-year-old Peggy has been putting on a …
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A WORLD BETWEEN US (Young Adult Novel)
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July 29, 2012 by Lydia Syson

Spain, 1936. Felix, a spirited young nurse, has run away from London to help the cause of the Republicans in …
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DOCTOR OF LOVE: JAMES GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED (Historical biography)
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July 28, 2012 by Lydia Syson

Dr Graham set out to bring the sublime into the sex life of every married couple. Widely considered the world’s …
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“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

“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

Sources for MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

MPP: Q & A on The History Girls

MY FRIENDLY LOCALS: Independent bookshops in S E London

L'sF: Find out more about the history behind Liberty's Fire

L'sF: Meet the women of the Paris Commune

L'sF: Who were the pétroleuses?

L'sF: Communards in London: a guided walk

L'sF: Interview about writing Liberty's Fire with Rebecca Mascull

TBS: Ideas for further reading/viewing/visiting

TBS: Polish pilots in WW2

TBS: Fear of Flying

TBS: The Battle of Britain from below

TBS: Romney Marsh in poetry and fiction

TBS: Wartime spirit

TBS: Inspirational 40s films

AWBU: How to find out more about the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: Homage to Catalonia

AWBU: Spanish Civil War music

AWBU: The Army of Africa

AWBU: Black Americans in Spain

AWBU: Art & the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: The Cave Hospital

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 1

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 2

AWBU: Unburying the dead

BOOKSHOPS: Support your local!

FAMILY INFLUENCES: Rebels, romantics and wordsmiths

UKYAX QUIZ: Which character are you most like? Let me know!

21 March 2019: MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS published in paperback

16 March 2019:King's Lynn Fiction Festival

19 October 2018:TAL Festival, Thame, Oxfordshire, with Anna Mazzola

2 August 2018:BBC Radio 4 Open Book 'Islands in Fiction' special

14 July 2018: Beacon Lit Festival - NEW VOICES

4 July 2018: Penzance Literary Festival

14 June 2018: Reading and Q & A at Review Bookshop, Peckham

17 May 2018: PUBLICATION DAY FOR MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

3 May 2018: Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice