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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 near you here. Southwark residents like me have lots to celebrate, as our council has not only worked hard through the cuts to keep libraries open, but in Camberwell we’ve even got a brand new one, open seven days a week, and it’s glorious. It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast to the dank, windowless basement that used to be Camberwell’s children’s library. Things are very different just over the border in Lambeth, where half the keep reading

Category News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Camberwell Library, CWISL, Durning Library, ebook offer, ebook promo, ePub, iBook, Kobo, Lambeth Libraries, Liberty's Fire, National Libraries Day, Nook, Romantic reads, Sainsbury's ebooks, Valentine's Day reads
National Libraries Day
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February 8, 2014 by Lydia Syson

Today’s the day to show your love for all the libraries in the country, and celebrate with millions of other library lovers. You can read my guest blog for NLD2014 here and find out more about events near you and get involved here. So here’s to libraries everywhere! Can you imagine life without them?

Category News | Tags: National Libraries Day

“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

Sources for MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

MPP: Q & A on The History Girls

MY FRIENDLY LOCALS: Independent bookshops in S E London

L'sF: Find out more about the history behind Liberty's Fire

L'sF: Meet the women of the Paris Commune

L'sF: Who were the pétroleuses?

L'sF: Communards in London: a guided walk

L'sF: Interview about writing Liberty's Fire with Rebecca Mascull

TBS: Ideas for further reading/viewing/visiting

TBS: Polish pilots in WW2

TBS: Fear of Flying

TBS: The Battle of Britain from below

TBS: Romney Marsh in poetry and fiction

TBS: Wartime spirit

TBS: Inspirational 40s films

AWBU: How to find out more about the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: Homage to Catalonia

AWBU: Spanish Civil War music

AWBU: The Army of Africa

AWBU: Black Americans in Spain

AWBU: Art & the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: The Cave Hospital

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 1

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 2

AWBU: Unburying the dead

BOOKSHOPS: Support your local!

FAMILY INFLUENCES: Rebels, romantics and wordsmiths

UKYAX QUIZ: Which character are you most like? Let me know!

21 March 2019: MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS published in paperback

16 March 2019:King's Lynn Fiction Festival

19 October 2018:TAL Festival, Thame, Oxfordshire, with Anna Mazzola

2 August 2018:BBC Radio 4 Open Book 'Islands in Fiction' special

14 July 2018: Beacon Lit Festival - NEW VOICES

4 July 2018: Penzance Literary Festival

14 June 2018: Reading and Q & A at Review Bookshop, Peckham

17 May 2018: PUBLICATION DAY FOR MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

3 May 2018: Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice