Reviews & more

  1. A WORLD BETWEEN US reviews

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    September 29, 2012 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 as a ‘hot read’ on teen website Sugarscape

    Please follow links for full reviews….

    A World Between Us is an outstanding debut novel for teenagers…what Syson captures so well is a sense of heartbreaking courage, comradeship and lost innocence…Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, for what I suspect is a keep reading


  2. Find out more about the background to A WORLD BETWEEN US

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    September 28, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    There have been about 15,000 books written in English about the Spanish Civil War – twice that many in Spanish, and more are published every month in Spain.

    Here I’ve listed some of the books that influenced me most keep reading


  3. Spanish Civil War songs

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    September 27, 2012 by Lydia Syson

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    You can hear different versions of nearly all the songs in A World Between Us on YouTube.  Many of these videos include evocative archive images of the Spanish Civil War. Print out song sheets for The Internationale and The Peat Bog Soldiers from the Hot Key Books website.

    keep reading


  4. Send an e-card!

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    September 26, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Tell someone about A WORLD BETWEEN US with an e-card, via Booktrust.


  5. DOCTOR OF LOVE reviews

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    September 7, 2012 by Lydia Syson

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    “Syson’s enthralling book offers a new portrait of Graham as an authentic innovator… [An] admirable and engaging book.” - The Guardian

    “I was entranced by Lydia Syson’s superb volume… keep reading


  6. My friendly locals…

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    September 5, 2012 by Lydia Syson

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    …in other words, the independent booksellers I’m lucky enough to have near me. We may not have the tube in South East London, but you’re never far from a brilliant bookshop.   keep reading


  7. My local hero: the magnificent Dr Lettsom

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    August 29, 2012 by Lydia Syson

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    My favourite place to write is in bed, right at the top of our house in Camberwell.  Looking out of the window, I can see the furthermost corner of the estate that once belonged to a man I fondly think of as my neighbour, although he lived here over two hundred years ago.  I’m often reminded of Dr Lettsom when I’m up the road working on our family allotment.  It’s just where his pleasure garden used to be, part of what is now a community garden which still bears his name.

    I kept running into Dr Lettsom in the course of my research into eighteenth-century medicine for my book DOCTOR OF LOVE, always with great pleasure.  Eventually I  put together some of what I’d found out for the website of my children’s primary school…as you’ll see, Dog Kennel Hill pupils have more than one reason to be interested in Dr Lettsom.

    http://www.dkh.org.uk/dr-lettsom/


  8. It’s All Relative & Drawn to Spain

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    August 4, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Here’s an article about some of the romantics, rebels and wordsmiths in my family which I wrote for the Jewish Socialist magazine’s Winter 2012 issue, followed by David Rosenberg’s review of A World Between Us. keep reading


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