1. Quick links

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    May 17, 2023 by Lydia Syson

    Please order my books at your nearest independent bookshop or online at Bookshop Kindle editions available on Amazon.   You …
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  2. MR PEACOCK’S POSSESSIONS

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    February 14, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    ‘an intelligent, beautifully written book about a dysfunctional family in a sinister paradise‘ (ANTONIA SENIOR in THE TIMES – BOOK OF …
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  3. LIBERTY’S FIRE

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    February 20, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Liberty’s Fire has been nominated for the 2016 Carnegie Award and named a Telegraph ‘best YA book of 2015’. Paris, 1871.  Nearly 40 years after …
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  4. THAT BURNING SUMMER

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    August 30, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    A Book of the Year 2013 for The Independent and Lovereading Romney Marsh, July 1940. When invasion threatens, you have to grow …
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  5. A WORLD BETWEEN US

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    July 29, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Highly Commended for Branford Boase Award 2013, longlisted for The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2013, shortlisted for WeRead Book Award 2013, longlisted for UKLA …
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  6. DOCTOR OF LOVE: JAMES GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED

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    July 28, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Dr Graham set out to bring the sublime into the sex life of every married couple.  Widely considered the world’s …
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“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

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

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