‘Reviews & more’ Category

  1. Morning Star 17th March 2016

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    April 11, 2013 by Lydia Syson


  2. Spanish Civil War songs

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    September 27, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    You can hear different versions of nearly all the songs in A World Between Us on YouTube.  Many of these videos include …
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  3. My friendly locals…

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    September 5, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    …in other words, the independent booksellers I’m lucky enough to have near me. We may not have the tube in …
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  4. My local hero: the magnificent Dr Lettsom

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    August 29, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    My favourite place to write is in bed, right at the top of our house in Camberwell.  Looking out of …
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  5. 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 …
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  6. Len Crome – Autobiographical Notes

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    August 2, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Len Crome (1909-2001) was chief of the medical service of the 15th Army Corps of the Republican army during the …
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  7. Map of Paris, 1871

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    March 1, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    ‘Harper’s Map of Paris’ can be found in the back of W.P.Fetridge’s 1871 The Rise and Fall of The Paris Commune (see …
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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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