Posts Tagged ‘That Burning Summer’
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World Book Week writing competition results. . . and other news
3June 6, 2017 by Lydia Syson
Authors aren’t just for World Book Day, and the positive effects of an author visiting a school continue to have …
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US publication
0January 31, 2017 by Lydia Syson
The new Sky Pony edition of That Burning Summer will be on the shelves of American bookshops from today, in beautiful hardback, …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: americanisation, An Awfully Big Blog Adventure, Keren David, NetGalley, new chapter, Sky Pony, That Burning Summer, US publication
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Happy ‘Nu’ Year
4January 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson
My New Year’s resolution should possibly be to work out how to exert better control over my headline images on …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Cold War, DIY, Liberty's Fire, Luc Sante, Practical Householder, Sky Pony Press, Spanish Civil War, Steven Pinker, Style, That Burning Summer, The Other Paris, The Sense of Style
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UKYA Extravaganza
0September 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson
I’m not sure if it sounds more like a circus or a speed-dating event for authors and readers, but I …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Emma Pass, Kerry Drewery, Liberty's Fire, Nottingham, That Burning Summer, UKYA Extravaganza, Waterstones
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THAT BURNING SUMMER reviews
1April 18, 2015 by Lydia Syson
Please follow links for full reviews (where available): Linda Newbery wrote in Armadillo (Editor’s Choice): ‘Lydia Syson is the kind of writer who …
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That Burning Summer: links and background resources
0March 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
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Stiff Upper Lips
0October 28, 2014 by Lydia Syson
A few days ago, a new opera called Shell Shock premiered in Brussels, just one of the huge number of commemorative …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: aeroneurosis, Bomber Command, Combat Stress, Flying Personnel Research Committee, flying stress, George Cocker, Joana Bourke, La Monnaie, Lack of Moral Fibre, LMF, morale, neurasthenia, opera, RAF, Salamander Oasis, Shell shock, soldier's heart, That Burning Summer, WW2
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Ravilious
1January 14, 2014 by Lydia Syson
Ravilious in Pictures: The War Paintings by James Russell (The Mainstone Press) – one of the most thoughtful and appropriate Christmas …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Alan Powers, Christmas presents, Dulwich Picture Gallery, homing pigeons, James Russell, Kenneth Clark, Mainstone Press, Narvik, Ravilious, That Burning Summer, War Artist, WW2
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Competition: The History Girls
0November 30, 2013 by Lydia Syson
This week there’s a chance to win a copy of That Burning Summer thanks to the The History Girls – if you already …
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Island of Last Hope
0November 25, 2013 by Lydia Syson
A group of Polish fighter pilots walking away from a Hawker Hurricane in October 1940, probably at RAF Northolt in …
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