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New book, new look!
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October 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
This Burning Summer
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July 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
The Next Big Thing
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December 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

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

“A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling” THE TIMES (Best historical fiction in 2018)

“Powerful, intense and beautiful” HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

“This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal” EMMA DARWIN

Sources for MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

MPP: Q & A on The History Girls

MY FRIENDLY LOCALS: Independent bookshops in S E London

L'sF: Find out more about the history behind Liberty's Fire

L'sF: Meet the women of the Paris Commune

L'sF: Who were the pétroleuses?

L'sF: Communards in London: a guided walk

L'sF: Interview about writing Liberty's Fire with Rebecca Mascull

TBS: Ideas for further reading/viewing/visiting

TBS: Polish pilots in WW2

TBS: Fear of Flying

TBS: The Battle of Britain from below

TBS: Romney Marsh in poetry and fiction

TBS: Wartime spirit

TBS: Inspirational 40s films

AWBU: How to find out more about the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: Homage to Catalonia

AWBU: Spanish Civil War music

AWBU: The Army of Africa

AWBU: Black Americans in Spain

AWBU: Art & the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: The Cave Hospital

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 1

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 2

AWBU: Unburying the dead

BOOKSHOPS: Support your local!

FAMILY INFLUENCES: Rebels, romantics and wordsmiths

UKYAX QUIZ: Which character are you most like? Let me know!

21 March 2019: MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS published in paperback

16 March 2019:King's Lynn Fiction Festival

19 October 2018:TAL Festival, Thame, Oxfordshire, with Anna Mazzola

2 August 2018:BBC Radio 4 Open Book 'Islands in Fiction' special

14 July 2018: Beacon Lit Festival - NEW VOICES

4 July 2018: Penzance Literary Festival

14 June 2018: Reading and Q & A at Review Bookshop, Peckham

17 May 2018: PUBLICATION DAY FOR MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

3 May 2018: Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice