Posts Tagged ‘Lydia Syson’
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WELCOME
0September 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson
… you’ve reached the website of Lydia Syson, author of LIBERTY’S FIRE, THAT BURNING SUMMER, A WORLD BETWEEN US, & the biography DOCTOR OF LOVE: DR JAMES GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED. Do click on ‘Reviews‘ to discover what other readers have thought of all these books, and then scroll down to find out more about the history behind the novels. For those on larger screens, on which this website works much better, apologies for any repetition. You’ll find the latest blogpost just below.NEWS: Bid on my offer of a Manuscript Critique at the AUTHORS FOR REFUGEES online auction here. Auction now ends 8am on Saturday 1st October.
Find out about school visits and other author events here
Buy LIBERTY’S FIRE here
Buy THAT BURNING SUMMER here
Buy A WORLD BETWEEN US here or the iBook edition with extra features (music, interactive maps, photographs, interviews with historians, archive materials and more) here at iTunes
Buy DOCTOR OF LOVE hereOr better still, ask your nearest independent bookshop for the books, or order from Hive if you don’t have one. Special offers now at Nook and Kobo.
Category Blog | Tags: author page, book reviews, books, Lydia Syson, Lydia Syson website
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Bookings
0March 21, 2016 by Lydia Syson
Please contact lydiasyson@gmail.com to request more information about school visits or to make a booking for any kind of event. You’ll find more about school visits here and can download full details: Lydia Syson’s school visits
Upcoming events.
9 Sept 2016: Ewell Library Summer Reading Challenge volunteers celebration
1 October 2016: Battle of Cable Street 80th Anniversary commemoration at Rich Mix with Michael Rosen and Philosophy Footballl
10 October 2016: Author visit to Sydenham High School
22 October 2016: YA Shot festival, Uxbridge: A History of Violence with Tanya Landman, Catherine Johnson, Katherine Woodfine
14-15 November 2016: CWISL Shoutwest! Festival
22 November 2016: Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls Lit Fest
Category Events | Tags: author visit, Booking, events, Lydia Syson, school visit
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31st March 2016: Children and Socialism series, Marx Memorial Library, London
0March 8, 2016 by Lydia Syson
New Ways to Tell Old Stories: putting the political into historical fiction for today’s young readers
Lydia Syson and Meirian Jump in conversation at the home of the International Brigade archives.
Lydia, a former BBC World Service radio producer, is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels for young adults. A World Between Us (2012) tells the story of three British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Sparked by research into the anthem of the International Brigades, Liberty’s Fire (2015) brings the 1871 Paris Commune dramatically to life for a new generation. That Burning Summer (2013) is set during the Battle of Britain in small rural community where spyfever is infectious and pacifism a dirty word. Lydia and Meirian will discuss hidden histories, unexpected heroes, archives and sources, and the ethics of turning real lives into fiction. All welcome. No need to book. £3 on the door.
March 31st, 2016 7:00 PMMarx Memorial Library
37A Clerkenwell Green
London
EC1R 0DU
United KingdomPhone: 020 725 31485Category Events | Tags: Children and Socialism, Historical YA, Lydia Syson, Marx Memorial Library, Pacifism, Paris Commune, political, Spanish Civil War, YA
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A WORLD BETWEEN US reviews
0April 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 as a ‘hot read’ on teen website Sugarscape. 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 Book Award 2014 and Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2013, nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, 2014.
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
Category Reviews & more | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Armadillo, Book bloggers, Books Teen & Magazines, Booktrust, Celia Rees, Historical YA, International Brigade Memorial Trust, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Socialist, Julia Eccleshare, Lydia Syson, Morning Star, Observer, Red House, Reviews, Sugarscape, teen book reviews, Telegraph, The Guardian, UKYA, We Love This Book
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Longing for Lundy
6September 25, 2012 by Lydia Syson
The seat at the kitchen table by the relief map was the prized place at meal times, if I remember rightly. Did we take it in turns, or was there a pecking order to where we sat? There was always something irresistible about stretching up and running your hands keep reading
Category Blog | Tags: Braer storm, islands, Lundy, Lydia Syson, Maps, place names, shipping forecast
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And another thing
0September 7, 2012 by Lydia Syson
I spent yesterday filming for the iBook edition of A World Between Us. So I’m spending today with all the things I should have said yesterday swirling round my head. Too late. Did I really fail to mention the time my great-aunt Lulu was arrested after throwing a keep reading
Category Blog | Tags: AWBU, event, fiction, filming, iBook, Lydia Syson
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The Torch of History
0August 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 watch the Olympic opening ceremony on television. The celebration of children’s books certainly softened my resistance to the occasion. And I enjoyed the glimpses of London in 1948 we had on our screens. And finally, I had time to watch – and get keep reading
Category Blog | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Cable Street, Lydia Syson, Olympics, Spanish Civil War
