Lydia Syson

1. Bookings & Events

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   May 24, 2018 by Lydia Syson

   Please contact lydiasyson@gmail.com to discuss bookings of any kind. You’ll find more about her work in universities as a Royal …
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   Category Bookings | Tags: author visit, book an author, Booking, events, literacy, Lydia Syson, school author visits, school visit

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2. Mr Peacock’s Possessions: sources and background reading

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   May 4, 2018 by Lydia Syson

   As noted in the book, the most important sources for Mr Peacock’s Possessions were: Elsie K Morton Crusoes of Sunday Island, 1957. Steven Gentry, Raoul …
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   Category Reviews & more | Tags: Bibliography, blackbirding, island fiction, Kermadecs, Lydia Syson, Missionaries, Mr Peacock's Possessions, Native Teachers, Niue, Pacific Slave Trade, Raoul Island, sources

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3. Heading towards publication day. . .

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   May 3, 2018 by Lydia Syson

   

   As I write this in London, the Kermadecs – the chain of volcanic islands in the Pacific where Mr Peacock’s Possessions …
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   Category News | Tags: HMNZS Canterbury, interview, Kermadecs, Kim Hill, Lydia Syson, Mr Peacock's Possessions, Ocean Sanctuary, Pacific islands, Pew Trusts, Raoul, Sir Peter Blake Trust, volcanic islands

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4. 31st March 2016: Children and Socialism series, Marx Memorial Library, London

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   March 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 …
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   Category Bookings | Tags: Children and Socialism, Historical YA, Lydia Syson, Marx Memorial Library, Pacifism, Paris Commune, political, Spanish Civil War, YA

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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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   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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6. Longing for Lundy

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   September 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 …
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   Category News | Tags: Braer storm, islands, Lundy, Lydia Syson, Maps, place names, shipping forecast

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7. And another thing

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   September 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 …
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   Category News | Tags: AWBU, event, fiction, filming, iBook, Lydia Syson

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8. 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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   Category News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Cable Street, Lydia Syson, Olympics, Spanish Civil War

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