4th October 2013: ‘That Burning Summer’ launch party
0September 9, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Come and celebrate at Review Bookshop, Peckham, 7-9 pm…but do let me or Evie Wyld know that you’re planning to …
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3rd October 2013 Publication Day: That Burning Summer
2September 7, 2013 by Lydia Syson
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20th-25th September 2013: Battle of Ebro 75th anniversary commemorations in Spain
0September 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson
The last section of A World Between Us is set during the opening stages of the Battle of the Ebro, the longest …
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Category Bookings | Tags: AABI, Cave Hospital, Corbera, Ebro, Gandesa, IBMT, La Bisbal de Falset, Len Crome
Book Genes
0August 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Every book has its own peculiar literary heritage, a kind of textual DNA that can be as hard to map …
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Category News | Tags: Bette Greene, book genes, Brookland, Dymchurch, Kipling, literary inspiration, Monica Edwards, Rewards and Fairies, Romney Marsh, That Burning Summer, We Couldn't Leave Dinah
This Burning Summer
3July 23, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I remember last July as dreary and overcast. When I went walking on Romney Marsh, trying to soak up the …
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Category News | Tags: 1940, Battle of Britain, Britain at War, Britain since 1930, GSCE, H E Bates, Home Front resources, KS3 History, Love for Lydia, Modern World Source Enquiry, propaganda, The Home Front, The Ripening World, War and the transformation of British Society c1931-51
Branford Boase Award Party
0July 19, 2013 by Lydia Syson
A week on and I’m still getting over the glorious celebration of books, reading, writing and above all editing for …
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Category News | Tags: Annabel Pitcher, Branford Boase, Dave Shelton, David Fickling, Henrietta Branford
‘Deberemos resistir! We must resist!’
0June 28, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I don’t know if you remember the moment in A World Between Us when George, walking along a street in …
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Category News | Tags: AABI, ALBA, Comment is Free, David Lomon, David Mathieson, Early Day Motion 204, historical memory, IBMT, International Brigade Monument, Madrid, Memorial, Paul Mason, petition, The Volunteer
Cover Glory
0June 23, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I did wonder whether second novel covers might be like second babies.
Category News | Tags: cover reveal, hot key ring, second novels, That Burning Cover
A small shout about…
0June 21, 2013 by Lydia Syson
This time last week I was contemplating the hidden qualities of a household sponge with a small group of Tigers …
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Category News | Tags: Creative Writing, CWISL, Festival, Lambeth, Lewisham, London South Bank University, Southsouth, Southwark, Wandsworth
Unbelievable?
4June 6, 2013 by Lydia Syson
‘Isn’t that rather implausible?’ I’ll take a bet that if you write vampire novels or fantasy or dystopia for young people, …
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Category News | Tags: credibility, Esmond Romilly, Felicia Browne, International Brigades, Jessica Mitford, John Sommerfield, Molly Murphy, Paris, People's Olympiad, real volunteers, Running away, Steve Fullarton, Wogan Phillips
