The return of Asterix: the Verdict
0November 12, 2013 by Lydia Syson
The first hint was an intriguing question in the Guardian Quiz (no. 3), then a query on Twitter. Just in …
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Category News | Tags: Asterix and the Picts, family review, New Asterix
The Comfort of Fellow Writers
0October 31, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Today marks my first ever contribution to a blog that I’ve found both addictive and invaluable for the past few …
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Category News | Tags: children's writers, CWISL, SAS, SCWBI
News and Pictures
0October 18, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Huge thanks to everyone who came to Review bookshop to welcome That Burning Summer into the world on October 4th …
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Category News | Tags: independent bookshops, launch party, That Burning Summer
New book, new look!
0October 3, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I’m delighted with the new design of this website – huge thanks to Jan Bielecki and Cait Davies in particular …
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Category News | Tags: Battle of Britain, Historical YA, Home Front, Home Guard, new teen fiction, New Ways of War, Polish pilots, Spies in Kent, That Burning Summer, Tom Wintringham, UKYA, Underground Propanda Committee
Journey to Hill 481
2October 1, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Last week’s experience of visiting some of the settings for key events in A World Between Us was extremely powerful. It’s …
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Category News | Tags: 115 days, Battle of the Ebro, British Battalion, Cambrils, Clarence Kailin, Corbera d'Ebre, Danilo Lekic, Gandesa, Gerard Martí, Hill 481, James Jump, John Cookson, John Longstaff, Lewis Clive, Montserrat Flores, sense of place, Spanish Civil War, UKYA, Unlikely Warriors
The cave hospital, at last.
0September 27, 2013 by Lydia Syson
‘This hospital is in a cave. When Felix heard, she imagined a storybook kind of cave, where dragons lurk on …
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Category News | Tags: 35th Division, AABI, Almudena Cross, Angela Jackson, Battle of Ebro, Bisbal de Falset, Cave Hospital, Enric Masip, IBMT, Len Crome, Medicine and war, Nan Green, No Jubilem La Memoria, Patience Darton, Peter Crome, Winnifred Bates
Remembering the Battle of the Ebro, September 1938
4September 26, 2013 by Lydia Syson
‘On the other side of the river, spirits are high. They’ve driven Franco’s forces from the steep hillsides outside Corbera. …
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Category News | Tags: 15th International Brigade, AABI, Albert Hobbs, Battle of the Ebro, British Battalion, C Day Lewis, Corbera, Edwin Greening, IBMT, Martha Gellhorn, Michael O'Riordan, Poble Vell, Sam Wild, Steve Nelson, The Volunteer
In praise of cross-fertilisation
0September 10, 2013 by Lydia Syson
In the past week my work as a writer has taken me to Edinburgh to participate in a conference on transgressive …
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Category News | Tags: Broad Vision, Cave Hospital, Ebro, Edinburgh, Eighteenth-century sexuality, Philosophy Football, politeness and prurience, Rich Mix, That Burning Summer, Victoriana, Wembley
7th December 2013: No Pasaran! A Night to Remember
0September 9, 2013 by Lydia Syson
The British Battalion of the International Brigades arrived home 75 years ago, to be greeted by huge crowds at Victoria …
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13th October 2013: Wood Green Literary Festival
0September 9, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Step back in time with me and Catherine Johnson, fellow-Londoner and award-winning children’s author. We’ll talking about writing and researching historical London, …
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Category Bookings | Tags: bookshop events for children, Wood Green Literary Festival
