Posts Tagged ‘A WORLD BETWEEN US’

  1. New Blood for the Republic: the Spanish Civil War, eighty years on

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    September 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    80th anniversary commemorations and conferences have been taking place up and down this country as well as Spain to mark …
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  2. February News: National Libraries Day and Ebook Special Offers

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    February 3, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    If you value your local library, this Saturday is the day to show your appreciation. Find out what’s going on …
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  3. Happy ‘Nu’ Year

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    January 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    My New Year’s resolution should possibly be to work out how to exert better control over my headline images on …
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  4. UKYA Extravaganza

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    September 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    I’m not sure if it sounds more like a circus or a speed-dating event for authors and readers, but I …
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  5. A WORLD BETWEEN US reviews

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    April 19, 2015 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 …
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  6. Find out more about the background to A WORLD BETWEEN US

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    March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    There have been about 15,000 books written in English about the Spanish Civil War – twice that many in Spanish, …
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  7. Len Crome Memorial Lecture 2014: Taking Sides

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    March 2, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    The Spanish Civil War ‘gripped the imagination of a generation’, said Valentine Cunningham this weekend at Taking Sides: Artists and …
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  8. Wartime Christmas

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    December 22, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    Today’s war-themed window in the Carnegie 2014 Advent Calendar by We Sat Down is my inspiration for this final post of the …
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  9. The Torch of History

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    August 30, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    For most of my life I’ve been as likely to pole-vault out of the garden as to sit down to …
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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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