Posts Tagged ‘Dodie Smith’
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Bees not fleas
0February 24, 2015 by Lydia Syson
Fellow YA author Helen Grant and I struck up conversation on Twitter at the weekend after reading a couple of responses from disgruntled male writers to the YouGov poll which found – surprise, surprise – that most people would rather be writers than go down the pit. To counter the prevailing myth that writing books is always a miserable, lonely profession, we collaborated on this book blog for The Guardian. keep reading
Category News | Tags: children's writing, Courtauld, Dodie Smith, Helen Grant, Philippa Stockley, RLF, The Guardian, The History Girls, The Starlight Barking, YouGov poll
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Christmas stories
0December 7, 2012 by Lydia Syson
This post was written for Hot Key Books ‘9 Days of Christmas’
All my childhood memories of Christmas merge into one indistinct blur: it was always the seventies. It was always grey. It never, ever snowed. And later I keep reading
Category News | Tags: 9 days of Christmas, A Hundred and One Dalmations, Chanukah, Christmas, Dodie Smith, Laura Ingalls Wilder, memories, On the Banks of Plum Creek, Rumer Godden, snow, Special offer, The Story of Holly and Ivy, traditions
