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A WORLD BETWEEN US reviews
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April 19, 2015 by Lydia Syson

Christmas book pick in The Observer , The Telegraph , The Morning Star & Radio Suffolk, Teen book club choice on The Guardian Children’s Book website, recommended …
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Category Reviews & more | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Armadillo, Book bloggers, Books Teen & Magazines, Booktrust, Celia Rees, Historical YA, International Brigade Memorial Trust, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Socialist, Julia Eccleshare, Lydia Syson, Morning Star, Observer, Red House, Reviews, Sugarscape, teen book reviews, Telegraph, The Guardian, UKYA, We Love This Book
THAT BURNING SUMMER reviews
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April 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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Category Reviews & more | Tags: blog reviews, Book bloggers, latest reviews, Lydia Syson book reviews, Reviews, Teen fiction, That Burning Summer, UKYA, WW2 fiction, YA fiction reviews
Coming up…
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April 12, 2015 by Lydia Syson

Lots of good things happening this month and next… On Tuesday 14th April the Anne Frank Trust will be at …
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Category News | Tags: #notsilent, #UKYADay, Anarchist school, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Trust, Competition, Countdown YA, David Rosenberg, Days of Hope, family history, Family Tree, Fitzrovia Festival, giveaway, Louise Michel, Philosophy Football, Rebel Footprints, Spyfever, UKYA
Celebrating Romance
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June 5, 2014 by Lydia Syson

Think of historical romance, and I suspect you’ll find yourself instantly bogged down in swathes of taffeta, tripping over corset-laces …
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Category News | Tags: #Romance14, Cathy Hopkins, Catnip, clean teen, Competition, digital romance, Emily Thomas, giveaway, historical romance, Keris Stainton, Liz Bankes, London Books, political romance, Romance Festival, steamy, UKYA
#UKYADay
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April 19, 2014 by Lydia Syson

I’m not going to assume that everybody who reads this will instantly understand the title of this post, but I …
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Category News | Tags: #UKYADay, Book bloggers, celebration, Lucy Powrie, Project UKYA, Teen fiction, UKYA, YA novels
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
Journey to Hill 481
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October 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

“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