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Mr Peacock’s Possessions: sources and background reading
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May 4, 2018 by Lydia Syson

As noted in the book, the most important sources for Mr Peacock’s Possessions were: Elsie K Morton Crusoes of Sunday Island, 1957. Steven Gentry, Raoul …
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Category Reviews & more | Tags: Bibliography, blackbirding, island fiction, Kermadecs, Lydia Syson, Missionaries, Mr Peacock's Possessions, Native Teachers, Niue, Pacific Slave Trade, Raoul Island, sources
That Burning Summer: links and background resources
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March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

Interested in exploring any of the history, ideas or places in That Burning Summer? Here are some good starting points –

Category Reviews & more | Tags: Bibliography, further reading, history behind, That Burning Summer
Find out more about the background to A WORLD BETWEEN US
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March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

There have been about 15,000 books written in English about the Spanish Civil War – twice that many in Spanish, …
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Category Reviews & more | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Bibliography, books about Spanish Civil War, films about Spanish Civil War, novels, Reading, Spanish Civil War

“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