1. Party in Peckham: 25th October 2012

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    October 24, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    AWBU in review window

    Book signing and general festivities from 7 -9 pm at review,131 Bellenden Road, SE15 4QY  - my wonderful local bookshop.

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  2. My Dear Friend…

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    October 19, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    African Americans in SCW from ALBA

    ‘There are loads of histories that deserve remembering’ wrote Catherine Johnson this week on The History Girls blogspot, on the subject of Black History Month.  What better time to remember a few more?  Until I started work on A World Between Us, I had no idea of the roles played by black volunteers and conscripts in the Spanish Civil War – volunteers on the Republican side, Moroccan conscripts fighting for Franco.  Histories within histories. keep reading

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  3. Cover Story

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    October 16, 2012 by Lydia Syson

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    Last Christmas I handed over present-buying duties to a reponsible other and buckled down to re-writes. By early January Hot Key had sent me a cover design.

    I opened the attachment with great excitement, desperate to love it. keep reading

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  4. Press launch in pics

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    October 9, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Cameron and Iris at AWBU launch

    Cameron Jacobs and Iris Mathieson performing Si tu me quieres escribir (If you want to write to me…), a song to celebrate the launch of A World Between Us into the reading world.  I’ve started spotting that cover in bookshop windows already.

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  5. The Battle of Bermondsey

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    October 3, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Maire Lynd c 1930 1

    75 years ago today my grandmother was arrested.  It must have been incredibly frightening, but by then she was used to being on the frontline. Maire Lynd (later Gaster) was one of 111 people ‘knocked off’ (as my grandfather put it) at a huge anti-fascist demonstration in Bermondsey.  Dockworkers, Communists, ILP members and Trades Councils got together to defeat Mosley’s Blackshirts as they tried to penetrate a Labour stronghold in the heart of London. keep reading

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"An intelligent, beautifully written book about a dysfunctional family in a sinister paradise" THE TIMES (BOOK OF THE MONTH)

"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

"A wonderful book" CAROL DRINKWATER

"A fantastic historical fiction debut" THE BOOKSELLER

"Syson brings history alive" THE OBSERVER

Events

3 May 2018: Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice

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

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

4 July 2018: Penzance Literary Festival

14 July 2018: Beacon Lit Festival - NEW VOICES

4 October 2018: Everybody's Reading Festival, Leicester with Anna Mazzola

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

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MPP: IQ & 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

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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

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