‘News’ Category
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Homage to Catalonia: the debate
3March 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson
“You’ve written a book about the Spanish Civil War? Oh yes, Orwell, right?” “Mmm. Yes and no.” I’ve had a …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Barcelona, Christopher Hall, Franco, Homage to Catalonia, IBMT, ILP, Jim Jump, Len Crome, Mary Vincent, May Days, Orwell, Orwell Society, Paul Preston, POUM, quiet front, Richard Baxell, Spanish Civil War historiography, Stafford Cottman, Tom Buchanan
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Questioning the Triumph of Abolition
1February 27, 2013 by Lydia Syson
A few years ago I did some research for my children’s South London primary school about a local hero called …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: abolition, Catherine Hall, Dog Kennel Hill, Freedom Sculpture, Lettsom, Slavery, UCL
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Dying for dreams
5January 24, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Numbers on labels, pinned to the soil. A handful of molars in a plastic bag. The riverine meanders of sutures …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Clemente Bernad, Desvelados, Dying for Dreams, Kept Awake, Memory, Spanish Civil War
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RIP David Lomon, 1918-2012
2December 22, 2012 by Lydia Syson
When Ellathebookworm from the Guardian Teen Book Club asked me this week what I would have found hardest if I’d …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: David Lomon, Guardian Teen Book Club, International Brigades Memorial Trust, last British International Brigader
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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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