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 …
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Category 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
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 …
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Category 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
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, …
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Category News | Tags: Battle of Britain, children's writers, Fleur Hitchcock, Julie Mayhew, Natasha Ngan, Next Big Thing, Polish pilot, Rebecca Lisle, Saviour Pirotta, WW2
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 …
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Category 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
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, …
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Category News | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Army of Africa, Black History, Langston Hughes, Moors, Moroccans, Oliver Law, prejudice, Reg Saxton, Regulares, solidarity
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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