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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Events

From 28 April 2014: Novel writing short course at City University

26 June 2014: Rocket Readers Award Ceremony, Prendergast-Ladywell Fields College

27 June 2014: Author visit to NLT Premier League Reading Stars at Harris Academy South Norwood

21 JULY 2014: Publication day of 'A World Between Us' in Germany: IM DUNKLEN LICHT DER TAG

8 November 2014: STREAM 2014 literature festival

15 May 2015:Philosophy Football event

Resources

TBS: Ideas for further reading/viewing/visiting

TBS: Polish pilots in WW2

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: 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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