Posts Tagged ‘That Burning Summer’

  1. World Book Week writing competition results. . . and other news

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    June 6, 2017 by Lydia Syson

    Authors aren’t just for World Book Day, and the positive effects of an author visiting a school continue to have …
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  2. US publication

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    January 31, 2017 by Lydia Syson

    The new Sky Pony edition of That Burning Summer will be on the shelves of American bookshops from today, in beautiful hardback, …
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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. THAT BURNING SUMMER reviews

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    April 18, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Please follow links for full reviews (where available): Linda Newbery wrote in Armadillo (Editor’s Choice): ‘Lydia Syson is the kind of writer who …
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  6. That Burning Summer: links and background resources

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    March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Interested in exploring any of the history, ideas or places in That Burning Summer?  Here are some good starting points –


  7. Stiff Upper Lips

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    October 28, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    A few days ago, a new opera called Shell Shock premiered in Brussels, just one of the huge number of commemorative …
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  8. Ravilious

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    January 14, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    HMS Ark Royal in Action© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 284)

    Ravilious in Pictures: The War Paintings by James Russell (The Mainstone Press) – one of the most thoughtful and appropriate Christmas …
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  9. Competition: The History Girls

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    November 30, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    This week there’s a chance to win a copy of That Burning Summer thanks to the The History Girls – if you already …
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  10. Island of Last Hope

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    November 25, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    A group of Polish fighter pilots walking away from a Hawker Hurricane in October 1940, probably at RAF Northolt in …
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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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