Summer news – updated
0August 1, 2014 by Lydia Syson
This is a bits-and-pieces, catch-up kind of a post, mostly to express my gratitude to lots of different people who’ve …
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Category News | Tags: Anne Clark, Catherine Clarke, City University, CWISL, Felicity Bryan, Flubit competition, Im Dunklen Licht der Tage, National Literacy Trust, Picture Book Agent, Teaching and Mentoring, The History Girls, Two Turtle Doves, Where's Wally fun run
Darkling I listen
1July 3, 2014 by Lydia Syson
I’ve only heard a nightingale sing once, in a wood near Bristol, when I was in my early twenties. Last …
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Category News | Tags: Artliner, Combat Stress, Corinna Dean, Farnborough, FAST, Keats, Nightingale, Outside Broadcast, Slacklands, Spitfire, test pilot, The Wind Tunnel Project
Celebrating Romance
0June 5, 2014 by Lydia Syson
Think of historical romance, and I suspect you’ll find yourself instantly bogged down in swathes of taffeta, tripping over corset-laces …
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Category News | Tags: #Romance14, Cathy Hopkins, Catnip, clean teen, Competition, digital romance, Emily Thomas, giveaway, historical romance, Keris Stainton, Liz Bankes, London Books, political romance, Romance Festival, steamy, UKYA
Observe yourself
2May 11, 2014 by Lydia Syson
Fieldwork. An anthropology of our own people, in the name of progress. Political empowerment. Or covert surveillance? Furtive notebooks and …
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Category News | Tags: archive, donate your diary, history from below, Mass Observation, May 12, Observer, social history
Writing competition results
3May 2, 2014 by Lydia Syson
Last month I wrote about a high-tech school visit I’d made to Sydenham School in South London. Today I’m delighted …
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Category News | Tags: invasion, Jess Taylor, Julien Bryan, Poland, Sydenham School, USHMM, writing competition, WW2, WW2 fiction, Year 8 creative writing
Diving deeper: into the ‘Glass Room’
0April 27, 2014 by Lydia Syson
Writing historical fiction demands total immersion. It’s a fairly obsessive process, but well worth it. Bit by bit, you build …
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Category News | Tags: audio visual, Author Profile, author visit, event, glasshouse, historical fiction, immersion room, LMF, NLT, School, South London Press, Sydenham School, total immersion, writing competition
June 5th 2014: VANGO Book 2 launch and panel discussion
0April 24, 2014 by Lydia Syson
I’m delighted to be involved in this exciting event at Walker Books, organised by IBBY, the International Board on Books for …
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Category Bookings | Tags: Alexandra Strick, Hot Key Books, IBBY, Jane Winterbotham, Outside In World, Sarah Ardizzone, Timothée de Fombelle, Vango, Walker Books, war and books for young people
#UKYADay
1April 19, 2014 by Lydia Syson
I’m not going to assume that everybody who reads this will instantly understand the title of this post, but I …
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Category News | Tags: #UKYADay, Book bloggers, celebration, Lucy Powrie, Project UKYA, Teen fiction, UKYA, YA novels
The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case – JQ review
0April 12, 2014 by Lydia Syson
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